Four Eyed Monsters
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Synopsis
Gillies MacKinnon directed this $5.6 million production with a screenplay by his brother, Billy MacKinnon. The film adapts the 1992 autobiographical novel by Esther Freud (Sigmund Freud's granddaughter) about hippie misadventures in North Africa in 1972, as described by a five-year-old girl. Disenchanted with the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia (Kate Winslet) heads for Morocco with her children, six-year-old Lucy (Carrie Mullan) and precocious eight-year-old Bea (Bella Riza). Living at a low-rent Marrakesh hotel, the trio survives on the sale of hand-sewn dolls and a few checks from the girls' father, a London poet who also has a child by another woman. After the girls match their mother with gentle Moroccan acrobat and con man Bilal (Said Taghmaoui), sexual gears are set in motion, and he moves in, serving as a surrogate father. Julia's friend Eva (Sira Stampe) urges Julia to study in Algiers with a revered Sufi master at a school of "the annihilation of the ego," and in another sequence European dandy Santoni invites Julia and the girls to his villa. As finances dwindle, Julia's philosophy is "God will provide," although usually it's Bilal who provides. This film was shot October-November 1997 in Morocco, where Winslet caught a stomach bug. Back in London, she went directly into the hospital and thus missed Titanic's London premiere. The score blends North African music with British-American pop hits of the '60s. The film's title derives from a word game played by the girls. Shown at the 1998 Dinard Festival of British Cinema and the 1998 London Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide


Production Crew

Jon Henson Art Director
Esther Freud Book Author
Susie Figgis Casting
John DeBorman Cinematographer
Annabel Karouby Co-producer
Emmanuel Schlumberger Co-producer
Marina Gefter Co-producer
John Keane Composer (Music Score)
Kate Carin Costume Designer
Gillies MacKinnon Director
Pia Di Ciaula Editor
Mark Shivas Executive Producer
Simon Relph Executive Producer
Nick Drake Featured Music
Mohamed Nesrate First Assistant Director
Stephen Wolfenden First Assistant Director
Ann Scott Producer
Louise Marzaroli Production Designer
Pierre Gompertz Production Designer
Billy MacKinnon Screenwriter
Bruno Charier Sound/Sound Designer
Year: 1998
Runtime: 97
Country: France
MPAA Rating: R
for some sexuality and language
Category: Feature

Genre
Drama

Sound
Dolby

Produced by
Arts Council of England
BBC
Film Consortium
Greenpoint Films
L Films

Release
by AMLF