Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we�re all involved in it. However, the only thing that truly connects us is our attempt to connect. Whether it be emotional, physical, subliminal or sexual, as human beings we need to make contact with others. But what are the rules? How do we really know whether someone likes us let alone is in love with us? How do we decide whether to connect with another person for a moment indeed a lifetime?The word that gets used most when discussing these issues is love. According to many great thinkers love is an unattainable notion that is driven more by need than reality, according to others it is the only thing that makes the otherwise intolerable idea of life remotely worth attempting. Scenes Of A Sexual Nature is a film that looks at some of our attempts to find it and how we behave in love, in lust and in trouble.Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath seven stories are linked by a thirty-something couple as they walk and walk and walk without uttering a word, so much to say to one another and no way of saying it. The film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. Whether it be a divorcing couple discussing how they ever got together, while walking their kid, a gay couple grappling with the very notion that they are now allowed to adopt or an old couple who realise they were once in love forty years ago, the film confronts our assumptions at every turn. It looks at the desperate attempts of a young man to get a young woman into bed, made trickier by the fact she’s just been dumped by her lover, and the case of what happens when a happily married couple are presented with the dilemma of the wife catching her husband staring at a teenage girl’s underwear. We look at the extremes of hope and need set against individual identity through the story of a Blind Date piq-niq where two forty-somethings search awkwardly and desperately for evidence that another person may be enough like them to be a mate and at the case of the man knows it�s all impossible and just prefers to pay for his affection.Scenes Of A Sexual Nature is a comedic and erotically charged look at what makes us tick and it seems that what makes us tick is complex, dark and ludicrously funny. Genre: RomanceUK release date: 27/10/2006Starring: Ewan McGregor, Sophie Okonedo, Catherine TateDirected by: Ed BlumOfficial Website: Click hereThanks to Roberta for the link 🙂
The September issue of Premiere (US) magazine has a behind the scenes look at Trainspotting. Great Scots! Ten years ago, “Trainspotting” scored with its controversial look at the adventures, both hilarious and heartbreaking, of a group of Edinburgh addicts. Premiere goes behind the scenes with the stars who showed the world why “It’s shite being Scottish.” Thanks to Wegan for sharing her scans with us! 🙂
Reagan Gavin Rasquinha7 Aug, 2006 VJ-actor Sophie Choudhry has given up London for Mumbai, as the sale of her family home in London proves it.And, the person who bought her house is none other than British actor Ewan McGregor (of Trainspotting and Moulin Rouge fame, to name a few).So how does Sophie feel about selling her house? “I am extremely serious about living in Mumbai, and that’s why I sold the old place. It was pretty emotional for me, pack- up a house that had 20 years of memories in it.The sale was a really private issue and it was done through the agents, of course. I’m really pleased that Ewan liked my home.”And what was it that made Ewan choose this place? “The house has got five large bedrooms, a big garden and is in Hampstead which is ten minutes away from Central London. It’s pretty big,” she says.So did she get to meet Ewan? “Generally abroad, when people buy property, it’s done through agents. I didn’t get to meet him, I just went there to pack my things up. In fact, the caretaker of my house got to meet him!” she laughs.Source: www.timesofindia.indiatimes.comThanks to Roberta for the link!
New stills from ‘Scenes of a Sexual Nature’. Check the gallery.
By Tom Teodorczuk, Evening Standard7 August 2006For a first-time director working on a shoestring budget, the cast is impressive.But Ewan McGregor, Sophie Okonedo and Dame Eileen Atkins have all accepted the minimum actors’ wage to appear in an independent film set on Hampstead Heath, which follows seven couples discussing their love lives on a hot August afternoon.Despite its stellar line-up, Scenes Of A Sexual Nature cost less than half a million pounds to make and was filmed in less than a month. McGregor agreed to take a break from blockbusters such as Star Wars and The Island to play one half of a gay couple contemplating adopting a child. In one scene he argues with his boyfriend – played by Douglas Hodge, who appeared with McGregor in West End hit Guys And Dolls – over who would give up work.”We broke all the rules,” said director Edward Blum, a north Londoner himself. “Ewan came on board because he liked the script.”Both himself and Douglas are brilliant actors and they were incredibly generous with their time.” The comedy-also stars Polly Walker from BBC epic Rome, comedian Catherine Tate, Mark Strong, star of Our Friends In The North, and Andrew Lincoln of Teachers.Each cast member was paid the Equity minimum rate for their appearance. Word of mouth quickly spread about the merits of the film’s script, written by television writer Aschlin Ditta.Blum, who has directed several television dramas including The Bill, said: “All the cast signed on during a two-week period when there was a rapid fire of actors saying yes.”To attract really good actors you need really good parts and material and the individual stories really appealed to them.”Once they knew they were going to be well looked after and the film was going to turn out well, it turned out to be quite easy.”Another factor helped. “A lot of the actors in the film live up there and know the area,” said Blum. McGregor lives in Hampstead, Okonedo in West Hampstead.Other tableaux in the film include a blind date gone wrong and separated spouses who get back together just before signing their decree absolute.Blum believes the star of the film is the heath itself. “This city has beautiful parks but it is such a wonderful place,” he said. “People talk about their lives, relationships and emotions on Hampstead Heath.”You can see all of the major sights of the capital there and the film gives a wonderful idea of London.”? Scenes Of A Sexual Nature will be released in late October or early November.Source: www.thisislondon.co.uk Thanks to Trish for the link
