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Interview: Peter Sattler talks Camp X-Ray and casting Kristen Stewart

Peter Sattler's Camp X-Ray is both an illuminating and honest depiction of the violence and inhumanity experienced by detainees of a camp in Guantanamo Bay.
Part of the 'debate' category of this year's BFI London Film Festival, the plot device lies in the telling of this story though the eyes of a young female Private, Amy Cole (Kristen Stewart) who is a fresh recruit keen to toughen herself up in post-9/11 America. As we live through Amy's experience, we are privy to the still-male dominated and sometimes sexist world of the US army. Struggling to find her place within the rigid structure of the POV camp, Stewart strikes up an unlikely alliance with a detainee (a must-see Peyman Maadi), bringing to light the fact that she may have more in common with the prisoners than her actual comrades.
I spoke to Peter (writer and director of Camp X-Ray) about his inspirations and how he managed to cast one of the most popular actresses of the moment...

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LFF: The Lighthouse

Dir: Robert Eggers.
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, and Valeriia Karaman.

The breathtaking and eerie The Lighthouse opens with the silhouettes of the newly-arrived keepers on their boat as they lunge towards land, ready for their four weeks spent on this craggy rock, far out to sea. We know who they are, of course. We’ve been waiting to see these actors make their appearance in grainy black and white, seemingly conjured from the 1890s, each frame begging us to drink in all of it’s sublimity. It's Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, starring in the latest film from auteur Robert Eggers (The Witch).

A foreboding, claustrophobic foghorn punctuates the soundtrack of churning waves as they hit the rocky shore, splashing up the side of the lighthouse with forceful ignorance. It will overshadow their early weeks working; Dafoe, known primarily as ‘Old,’ before revealing himself to be Thomas Wake, tending the light and refusing to let young Ephraim Winslow (Pattison) anywhere nea…

Dinard Film Festival celebrates the best of British cinema

One rather glorious October week saw the Dinard Film Festival celebrate the best of British cinema at it's home of Dinard in Brittany, France. This sun-soaked seaside festival showcased the year's lesser-known indie gems and saw the likes of Roger Allam, Phil Davis, James D'Arcy and Alice Lowe come together to showcase their latest films. Alice Lowe's new film, Prevenge is a deliciously dark comedy about a serial killer spurred on by the voice of her unborn baby and was a stand-out. Other celebrated films included the anarchic coming-of-age musical Moondogs, the feature debut from Philip John.

The Dinard British Film Festival was launched in 1989 to bring to France a variety of dynamic and original British productions for both professionals and cinephiles, and continues to be a hub for filmmakers from the British independent scene; keen to get noticed, gain distribution in the European market or to see their films reach new audiences.

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