Intimate Relations
Philip Goodhew
Stanley and Marjorie Beasley live in apparent bliss in a small provincial town in England. Whilst the husband gained a reputation of bravery at the First World War, the wife is credited to her expert skills on the home front as a model housewife. However, behind the pretty curtains of their immaculate semi, the seeds of discontent have been sown. Marjorie decides to select a lodger and chooses Harold Guppy, a young sailor with an addiction to sweets to calm his violent tendencies. She makes it her business to seduce the vulnerable young man while maintaining the illusion of herself as an upholder of traditional family values... ""With Intimate Relations", I wanted to tell a story of repressed desire and its crippling effect on an ordinary family - their hypocrisy, their senseless embarrassment and their inability to face the truth." - Philip Goodhew.
With : Julie Walters, Rupert Graves, Matthew Walker, Laura Sadler
Screenplay : Philip Goodhew
Image : Andrós Garretón
Sound : Keith Tunney
Music : Lawrence Shragge
Editing : Pia di Ciaula
Screenplay : Philip Goodhew
Image : Andrós Garretón
Sound : Keith Tunney
Music : Lawrence Shragge
Editing : Pia di Ciaula
Production : HandMade Films - 15 Golden Square, London W1R 3AG, Royaume-Uni - Tél : 44 171 434 3132, Fax : 44 171 434 3143
After studying drama at the University of Manchester, Philip Goodhew worked as an actor and appeared in particular in "The Comedy of Errors" by Shakespeare, "Le Misanthrope" and in "The Gambler", next to Kenneth Branagh. He pursued his career in theatre by adapting successful plays and performing in many TV films. He then studied at the New York Cinema Academy, where he directed several shorts: Requiem, Frogs and Strange Dreams. "Intimate Relations" is his first feature film.