Completed - ENGLISH - Comedy, Art - Culture - 85 minutes
In a bohemian contemporary London poet Celeste wants to get her first book published and find her estranged father, while her friend and neighbour Stella wants to get an acting part and consummate her online love affair.
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Bellamacina GRETA Producer(s) : Robert MONTGOMERY
Positioned as "the London version of Frances Ha" Hurt By Paradise is the debut feature by writer/director Greta Bellamacina. It is the story of Celeste- a young poet and single mother- her comedically unsuccessful attempts to get her first book published and find her father, and her co-dependent friendship with her babysitter Stella- a middle-aged failed actress captivated by an online love affair. Very much a love letter to London, just has Woody Allen’s Manhattan is to New York, Hurt By Paradise is a literary comedy set in a Bohemian London of the present day. It is a young and accessible indie film with an emotional arc and a tragi-comic plot twist. Greta Bellamacina's poetry is woven in to the script in the context of a refreshing comedy. Female-written and directed, Hurt By Paradise was also shot with a majority-female crew. It has already won official selection at the Edinburgh Film Festival, which will be it's UK festival premiere (June 20th)
Country(ies) : Unknown, UNITED KINGDOM
Edinburgh 2019 (Best of British)