An Organization of Dreams
Synopsis
A writer returns, disillusioned, to London and Paris. He begins on a story: a sleeper cell of young, glamorous urban terrorists. Gabriella, glamorous trophy wife of a young king-in-exile, holed up in an opulent London riverside penthouse, falls under the spell of a modern-day Che Guevara and, Patty Hearst-style, enlists in The Cause. She is sent to Paris under the 'front' of a drama student aiming at film. She takes her studies exceptionally seriously: encounters Bernard Stiegler, the leading philosopher on the subject of cinema and the human condition, and other luminaries. And she meets fellow-"student" activists, half-sister and -brother Julia and Sam, skilled actors who seem more interested in petty crime and scams. Their father is a political prisoner held in London; is he the master-mind? Has he been grooming them since childhood?
Our writer adopts the persona of a sleuth as he follows these anti-heroes. Books are passed, stolen: do they bear coded messages? Why is Gabriella obsessed with capturing her interviews on an outdated Nagra tape-recorder? What is their connection with the incipient terrorism on the city streets?
So our writer/sleuth uncovers events; but is he documenting actuality, or inventing a fiction?
Details
- Year
- 2010
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 94 mins
- Format
- 35mm, HD, Mixed Media
- Director
- Ken McMullen
- Producer
- Anders Palm, Fleur Whitlock, Barbara Gorna, David Fairman, Manuela Noble
- Co-Producer
- Anders Palm, Fleur Whitlock, Barbara Gorna, David Fairman, Manuela Noble
- Editor
- Adam Finch
- Screenwriter
- Ken McMullen
- Director of Photography
- Yorgos Arvanitis, Elso Roque
- Sound
- Tim Barker
- Music
- Michael Nyman
- Principal Cast
- Dominique Pinon, John Shrapnel, Gabriella Wright, Julia Faure, Lex Shrapnel, Sam McMullen
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 20th January 2010
