The Dinard Festival of British Film

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Director Christopher Smith talks about making Triangle, out in the UK this week

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Triangle was the last film I saw at Dinard, and it's yet another cracker. It's an edge-of-the-seat twisty-turny time loop suspense movie. A bit like Memento meets Dead Calm - but with Angel from Home and Away instead of Mike from Neighbours (or Nicole Kidman - note to self: never get on a yacht with an Aussie). It's out in the UK this Friday - go see it!
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The Jury

Jury press call on the Thalassa Hotel terrace with Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins and lots of French celebs whose names I should know. I got all girlishly starstruck with Sally Hawkins because Happy Go Lucky was my favourite film of the last year and she's just like her character... while all the other men went silly for the femme fatale poledancing with the union jack.

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Full house for White Lightnin' at 10.30am

First off for me today was Dominic Murphy's White Lightnin', in the very very pre-watershed 10.30 spot. It's a British film set and shot in the Appalachian Mountains of the USA - quite a bold move for a Brit flick. And he pulled it off, I think. If it's like anything, it's maybe like a film version of Vernon God Little. But more graphic. I hope nobody in the audience this morning had had a big breakfast. Murphy introduced it, saying that the film that has most influenced him is The 400 Blows, and that we'd see some allusions to it in White Lightnin'. He also said that he'd always been a good boy, but was drawn to stories about delinquents - and that when his mother saw this film, she'd said "Ah, it's your [Jungian] shadow". Good boy or not, White Lightnin' is a powerful portrait of addiction. And it stars Carrie Fisher!

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