The Deep Blue Sea
The BFI London Film Festival has become one of the most popular on the circuit and a whole host of international movies will be one show next week.
But there will also be a lot of home grown movies and talent on show during the 55th festival and FemaleFirst takes you through some of the Brit movies that you should be on the look out for.
- The Deep Blue Sea
Tom Hiddleston may be about to fight off The Avengers is the latest Marvel movie but before we see him reprise the role of Loki he teams up with Rachel Weisz for The Deep Blue Sea.
The movie is directed by Terence Davies, who also penned the screenplay, and is an adaptation of the play by Terence Rattigan of the same name.
Hester Collyer (Academy Award ® winner Rachel Weisz) leads a privileged life in 1950s London as the beautiful wife of high court judge Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale).
To the shock of those around her, she walks out on her marriage to move in with young ex-RAF pilot, Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), with whom she has fallen passionately in love.
Set in post-war Britain, this deeply moving story is an adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s classic play, The Deep Blue Sea is a study of forbidden love, suppressed desire, and the fear of loneliness. Stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea, what, or whom, should Hester choose?
The movie is set to close the 55th BFI London Film Festival
- Shame
There has already been plenty of excitement surrounding this movie on the festival circuit as Michael Fassbender picked up the Best Actor gong in Venice.
The movie sees the very in demand actor reunite with his Hungary filmmaker Steve McQueen as well as actress Carey Mulligan.
Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a 30-something man living comfortably in New York balancing a busy job and active social life.
When the wayward Sissy (Carey Mulligan), turns up at his apartment unannounced, Brandon’s carefully managed lifestyle spirals out of control.
- Coriolanus
There are plenty of British actors who are making their directorial debuts this year and Ralph Fiennes is just one of then as he also stars in as well as helms Coriolanus.
An adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy the actor has assembled an very exciting cast including Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain and James Nesbitt for a movie that has already got people talking.
Coriolanus is a revered Roman General at odds with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens.
Pushed by his controlling mother Volumnia to enter the Senate, he is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs in order to secure a Senate seat.
When the public refuse to support him, Coriolanus’s anger prompts a riot which culminates in his expulsion from Rome.
The banished hero then allies himself with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler) to take his revenge on the city.
- We Need to Talk About Kevin
We haven't seen Tilda Swinton on the big screen since The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader but she is set to make her return with We Need To Talk About Kevin.
The film sees her team up with Brit filmmaker Lynne Ramsay for the adaptation of the 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver and she is joined on the cast list by John C. Reilly and Ezra Miller.
The mother of a teenage boy who went on a high-school killing spree tries to deal with her grief -- and feelings of responsibility for her child's actions -- by writing to her estranged husband.
- The Awakening
And the London Film Festival wouldn't be complete without a horror movie to get us jumping out of our seat - and The Awakening looks set to do just that.
Starring Dominic West, Rebecca Hall and Oscar®-nominee Imelda Staunton, The Awakening is the chilling new supernatural thriller from Nick Murphy, set for release on 11 November 2011.
In post-World War I England in 1921, an author and paranormal sceptic (Hall) is invited to a countryside boarding school by the head master (West) to investigate rumours of an apparent haunting.
But just when she thinks she has debunked the ghost theory, she has a chilling encounter which makes her question all her rational beliefs.
- Wuthering Heights
Andrea Arnold also makes her return at the London Film Festival with her new adaptation of Wuthering Heights.
This is her first movie since the success of Fish Tank a couple of years ago and she is set to put a new spin on an old and popular tale.
A Yorkshire hill farmer on a visit to Liverpool finds a homeless boy, named Heathcliff, on the streets.
He takes him home to live as part of his family on the isolated Yorkshire moors where the boy forges an obsessive relationship with the farmer’s daughter, Catherine.
As the children grow, family members and neighbours are caught up in the family’s bitter games fuelled by overblown egos.
- Wild Bill
Dexter Fletcher is another actor making his directorial debut with Wild Bill, a screenplay that he also helped pen.
A great British cast has been assembled including Charlie Creed-Miles, Will Poulter, Andy Serkis and Liz White.
The movie follows Billy Hayward who is out on parole after serving eight years in prison. But on his return home he finds himself having to play dad to his two sons, who he finds have been abandoned by their mother.
The 55th BFI London Film Festival runs 12 - 27 October.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
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