When you are nearly 80 then clearing out your wardrobe and changing your outfit is probably expected – and that’s what Royal Bank of Scotland is doing with its mobile branch network.
30.06.2023 - 16:33 / variety.com
Naman Ramachandran Music Box Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Richie Adams’ “The Road Dance,” the Scottish adaptation of John McKay’s 2002 bestselling novel. In the film, Kirsty MacLeod (Hermione Corfield) dreams of a better life away from the isolation that suffocates her in a small village on an island in the Outer Scottish Hebrides. Suppressing these aspirations, she sees her lover Murdo (Will Fletcher) conscripted for service in WWI, soon to set off and fight alongside the other young men from the village. A road dance is held in their honor the evening before they depart, and it’s on this fateful evening that Kirsty’s life takes a dramatic and tragic turn.
The film premiered at the 2021 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it won the audience award for best film, followed by the jury prize for best feature at the Manchester International Film Festival. It has since played the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Heartland Film Festival, and other U.S. festivals, including the Sedona International Film Festival, where it won the audience choice award for best feature drama.
The sale of the film was negotiated by Brian Andreotti of Music Box Films and Andrew Brown of Parkland Pictures on behalf of the filmmakers. Andreotti said: “’The Road Dance’ is the kind of sweeping romance that isn’t made much these days: an intimate, classical, character-driven film where the biggest special effects are the spectacular landscapes of Scotland, captured by Petra Korner’s exquisite cinematography. Richie Adams’s delicate direction and his enormously talented cast are sure to affect audiences in the U.S.” Adams added: “I’ve always been a fan of period films and stories of simpler times when a
When you are nearly 80 then clearing out your wardrobe and changing your outfit is probably expected – and that’s what Royal Bank of Scotland is doing with its mobile branch network.
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