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Katalin Varga director plots horror movie


16 February 2010

British director Peter Strickland is to follow his award-winning debut film Katalin Varga with a horror movie about a sound engineer's nightmarish experiences at an Italian film studio. The Berberian Sound Studio shoots in Italy later this year and will be co-produced by the UK production houses Warp-X and Illuminations Films. And on this occasion, it appears, Strickland will also have the support of the UK film establishment.

A haunting tale of revenge in rural Romania, Katalin Varga won Strickland an award for best newcomer at the European film awards last December. The director funded the film's £25,000 budget from his own inheritance and shot the production with a skeleton crew of 11 people.

"With heroic effort and a family legacy, Strickland had climbed the treacherous peak of independent movie-making, and he hadn't had so much as a brass farthing from the UK Film Council," wrote Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw. "It leaves our film establishment to ponder the question of whether it should therefore be embarrassed by or proud of a British director who is independent in the truest sense."

Embarrassed or not, the Film Council has now clasped Strickland to its bosom. Screen Daily reports that The Berberian Sound Studio will be partly bankrolled by the council's feature development fund.

Katalin Varga Film Page

Source: Guardian Online

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/feb/16/katalin-varga-peter-strickland-horror