Sophie Winkleman Movies
- 2008
Maverick director Mike Figgis once again offers a look at the grim underside of human relationships in this short feature. Darren (Daniel Lapaine) is a wealthy amateur racecar driver from London who has come to Istanbul to take part in the Gumball Rally, an annual underground road race. Darren is married, but he's hoping to find some action on the side while away from home, and he meets Rachel (Sophie Winkleman), an attractive woman who also comes from England. Darren gives her an invitation to a party for the Gumball racers and later lures her back to his hotel room, but what he doesn't know is that Rachel is suffering from severe depression and has decided to kill herself. While composing a suicide note, Rachel decides she wants one final night of decadence before taking her own life, which has led her to this assignation with Darren. However, Darren is self-centered enough that he barely acknowledges her enough to take her body when it's offered to him. Love Live Long was shot and written spontaneously while Figgis was himself in Istanbul for the Gumball Rally; the final product received its world premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sophie Winkleman, Daniel Lapaine, (more)
- 2005
- PG
- Add The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to QueueAdd The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to top of Queue
Four siblings -- Edmund (Skandar Keynes), Lucy (Georgie Henley), Peter (William Moseley), and Susan (Anna Popplewell) -- are sent from their London home to the country estate of an eccentric professor in order to ensure their safety during World War II. The house is very dull, except for a large, ornate wardrobe discovered by young Lucy during a game of hide-and-seek. Venturing inside of it in the hopes of finding a hiding place, Lucy is transported to a snowy alternate universe: a magical world called Narnia. The land is populated by talking animals and ruled over by the benevolent lion god Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson), but sadly, the world is also in a state of perpetual winter. The white witch Jadis (Tilda Swinton), lustful for power and governed by narcissism, has cursed Narnia with a tyrannical decree that it will always be winter but never Christmas. Now, the children must fight alongside Aslan for the salvation of Narnia, but one of them, seduced by the charisma of the white witch, may choose to fight on the wrong side. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, (more)
- 2002
Originally telecast in the United Kingdom, the two-part miniseries White Teeth was based on Zadie Smith's 2000 bestseller about the perils of cultural assimilation in modern day North London. Taking place in the years 1974 to 1992 and set in the melting-pot community of Willesden Green, the story focuses on three different families. The Jamaican-English Archie Jones (Phil Davis) is a professional envelope-folder, while his wife, Clara (Naomie Harris), is a lapsed Jehovah's Witness. Archie's old army buddy Samad Iqbal (Om Puri) is a Bengalese waiter who hails from Bangladesh, also the home country of his sharp-tongued spouse, Alsana (Archie Panjabi). And the Malfen family, headed by Joyce and Marcus (Geraldine James, Robert Bathurst), are fiercely dedicated charter members of the Keepers of the Eternal and Victorious Islamic Nation (or KEVIN for short). Deftly combining comedy, drama, melodrama, and pathos, the Dickensian interactions and interrelationships among the three families manage to accommodate a variety of dizzying plot convolutions involving disenchanted youngsters, racial prejudice, social pretensions, cult worship, misguided animal activists, a genetically modified mouse, a Nazi war criminal, and a bizarre but brilliant kidnapping scheme. In the United States, White Teeth first aired May 11, 2003, as part of the PBS Masterpiece Theatre anthology. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Om Puri, Philip Davis, (more)
