The creators behind the new British comedy said “very flattered” and “quite crazy” to receive the praise of the Rom-Coms King, Richard Curtis.
Carey Mulligan stars in Ballad about the island of Wallis, Based on the short of the representative team Tom Basden and the team key.
It plays Nell Mortimer, a remote professional and romantic partner of the musician Herb McGwyer. Herb arrives to the remote Island Wallis for the performance of eccentric millionaire Charles Heath (Key), on which Nell was invited.
In a recent interview, Curtis – famous for HIT ROM-COMS, including Notting Hill, Four weddings and funAnd love, in fact – parse commendations on the film and called him “one of the greatest British films of all time”.
“It’s very flattering to be anointing that way,” the key said Times. “It was like an important moment. And quite crazy.”
Bazden added: “He was not involved in any point with film. He just saw and think it was wonderful. It’s a wonderful thing.”
In the same interview, Mulligan discovered her husband, folk singer Marcus Mumfordwho invited her to accept the offer for the star, because the couple was already the fans of a key late-night radio 4 shows, Poetry program.
“Marcus told me that I had to work a movie before I read the script at all because it was such a big fan,” the actor, who has recently been confirmed that the star in Greti Gerwig Narnia adaptationexplained.
“I said,” Well, I’ll read first. “But he just said,” Be in the movie. ”
Mulligan – who sang on the screen in earlier movies Inside Llewyn Davis and Shame He admitted that she found her recent movie screening Curtis “Muccrucing”, as the director asked to sing live.
“I can do it in a row in the set and in the character, but it just pushed me completely over my edge,” she said.
In March, Forbes They reported that the film “went out of the storm” with the American audience on film festivals before a limited theater outing in Los Angeles and New York.
Asked why he took 20 years to turn his short film into a feature project, the key said that “he illegally was in the back of our mind.”
“It was still waiting for one bit to unlock him, which is probably in the character of Nell, which opens the Backstory for the plant and opens this world that no longer exists, and that became a motor room,” he said.
Ballad about the island of Wallis is in cinemas from 30. May.