Joseph, Hannah and James—a “ménage à trois'? More like a “menace à trios”. Joseph, a divorced, alcoholic and self-destructive loner, accidentally meets Hannah. She is a Christian woman working in a slop shop. Through her kindness, a friendship slowly develops, though Joseph prefers to leave God out of the equation, or, as he prefers to express it: “God ain’t my fucking daddy”. He mistakes Hannah for a naïve woman, lacking experience of life, but she has her own gruesome secrets—her husband James. He is a violent, sexually abusive man, a psychopath hiding behind a polished facade.
Within this mise-en-scène, a Greek tragedy unfolds: Three tormented characters in the epicenter, entangled in a drama involving violence, power, death and a spoonful of love—a drama affecting the surrounding society like seismic waves.
In Paddy Considine's convincing directorial debut, we learn that the state of self-knowledge can be achieved by encountering yourself in another person’s body. Considine also questions the desirability of forgiveness or redemption. Is the dichotomy between good and evil an illusion?
- Title
- Tyrannosaur
- Director
- Paddy Considine
- Country
- UK
- Length
- 91 min
- Festival
- 2011
- Section
- Competition
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- Swedish subtitles
- Premiere status
- Swedish Premiere
- Production year
- 2011
- Cast
- Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Paul Popplewell
- Producer
- Diarmid Scrimshaw
- Script
- Paddy Considine
- Music
- Chris Baldwin
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