Brighton Rock (2010 film)

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Brighton Rock
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRowan Joffé
Screenplay byRowan Joffé
Based onBrighton Rock
by Graham Greene
Produced byPaul Webster
Starring
Cinematography
BBC Films
Kudos Film and Television
Distributed byOptimum Releasing
Release dates
  • 13 September 2010 (2010-09-13) (TIFF)
  • 4 February 2011 (2011-02-04) (United Kingdom)
Running time
111 minutes[2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$12 million[3]
Box office$1.8 million[3]

Brighton Rock is a 2010 British crime film written and directed by Rowan Joffé and loosely based on Graham Greene's 1938 novel of the same name. The film stars Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Serkis, John Hurt, Sean Harris and Helen Mirren.[4]

The novel had previously been made into a

Mods and Rockers era of the 1960s.[5][6]

Sam Riley plays "

Brighton Pier, and at Beachy Head. Some scenes were shot at Hedsor House in Buckinghamshire[7] and in Brighton itself.[7]

Plot

In 1964,

Pinkie Brown, the sociopathic
enforcer of a Brighton gang, murders Fred Hale, who had killed the gang leader Kite. Brown befriends Rose, a young waitress who witnessed the gang's activity, to keep an eye on her. She falls in love with him. To prevent her from being compelled to give evidence against him, he marries her. Ida, Rose's employer and a friend of Hale's, takes it upon herself to save the girl from the monster she has married.

Cast

Production

Rowan Joffé was originally uninterested in the project, which as first proposed was to be a remake of the 1948 film. After re-reading the novel, however, Joffé "fell absolutely in love with the character of Rose" and convinced the studio to let him adapt the novel directly.[8] Joffe later explained why he did his own adaptation of the novel:[8]

The novel was worthy of a contemporary adaptation. In fact, it makes it almost more dutiful as a filmmaker if you love the novel, to bring it to life without the restriction of censorship. I mean, a lot of the

Catholicism
was cut out of the original film because they didn’t want to offend Catholics... there are aspects of the film where if critics were to be honest about, and few of them have been certainly in England, that the 1947 version is a rather tame adaptation and certainly fails to do justice to the character of Rose, because the original black and white was made in a period where we were culturally and politically very patronizing to women.

Apropos to the location, Pinkie kills Spicer by shoving a stick of Brighton rock candy down his throat.

Release

Brighton Rock

premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010[9][10] and the BFI London Film Festival in October 2010.[11]

The film was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2011,

video-on-demand.[15]

Reception

Brighton Rock received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator

passion play
but a gritty and despairing noir. That’s good enough for me."

References

  1. ^ "StudioCanal Features". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 6 February 2021.
  2. ^ "BRIGHTON ROCK (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 7 December 2010. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  3. ^ a b Brighton Rock at Box Office Mojo
  4. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  5. ^ Dawtrey, Adam (15 May 2008). "Optimum to remake 'Brighton Rock'". Variety. Retrieved 24 May 2008.
  6. ^ Elliott, Emily-Ann (19 May 2009). "Brighton set to Rock again". The Argus. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
  7. ^ a b "Filming Locations for Brighton Rock (2010) in Brighton, Eastbourne and London". The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Interview with Brighton Rock director Rowan Joffe". Trespass magazine. 4 April 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  9. ^ "At TIFF: Brighton Rock Extends the Graham Greene Adaptation Curse". Movieline.com. 13 September 2010. Archived from the original on 16 September 2010. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  10. ^ Lambert, Christine (2010), "Brighton Rock premiere photos - 35th Toronto International Film Festival", DigitalHit.com, retrieved 10 April 2012
  11. ^ Green, Emma (24 October 2010). "Brighton Rock is London Film Festival's Surprise Film". TheFilmPilgrim.com. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  12. ^ "Brighton Rock Reveals U.S. Poster, Trailer and Release Date | Filmophilia". filmophilia.com. 2012. Archived from the original on 29 November 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  13. ^ "Brighton Rock". Urban Cinefile. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  14. ^ a b Holden, Stephen (25 August 2011). "A Meek Rose Amid the Mods and Rockers in an English Resort Town". The New York Times. NYT Critics Pick. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  15. ^ "A Meek Rose Amid the Mods and Rockers in an English Resort Town". IFC Films. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  16. ^ "Brighton Rock (2010)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 6 October 2021. Edit this at Wikidata
  17. CBS Interactive
    . Retrieved 22 June 2020.

External links

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