Drug fuelled sex with a vicar and lustful longings for other women,
are there some things a girl shouldn't share with her mother?
are there some things a girl shouldn't share with her mother?
A story of Londoners connected by family, friends and a certain therapist who brings all her patients’ problems back to their mothers. Lives start to unravel during an eventful dinner party where the cook spoils the food, a coke headed model flirts with a married vicar, a secret affair is exposed, old family wounds are reopened and... of course... one meddling mother drops by to cause even more trouble.
| how we did it by Co Director Hannah Davis
Fascinated by the emotional rollercoaster ride that is the Mother & Daughter relationship (and mine is no exception!) I posted an ad on the internet… “SEARCHING FOR TEN FEMALE ACTORS! I am putting together a project exploring the relationship between Mothers & Daughters and need female performers willing to talk about their relationship with their mother…” I received over two hundred replies and set about interviewing as many as I could. For the next two months I took to my couch and listened… and listened… In the meantime my husband, actor David Conolly, was in a show on London’s prestigious West End that seemed (to quote “The Producers” here) to close on the first day of rehearsal. David’s unexpected unemployment meant a new ear to listen to the stories and a new eye for the structure of the screenplay. Eight actors were chosen (including, of course, my hugely talented actress Mother!) and six months were spent devising and rehearsing the script. This was followed by intense periods of filming with breaks so that the cast and crew could earn a few pennies to keep them going (and David and I could earn enough to finance the next phase of production!) Until… world famous producer and best selling novelist, Lynda La Plante (of Prime Suspect, Trial and Retribution and Commander fame) saw a teaser for the movie and offered to become our post production Fairy Godmother and Executive Producer and out tumbled the completed “Mothers & Daughters”. Mothers & Daughters debuted at Cannes and then traveled to festivals world wide including: Sao Paulo, Montreal, Quebec, Barcelona, Chicago Indie Fest, Los Angeles, The Hamptons, Raindance, Braunschweig and finally Dinard where it was chosen as one of the top six British films of 2004. |