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directed by Marc Isaacs
UK 2005

 

Narrated by ten-year-old Laura-Anne, SOME DAY MY PRINCE WILL COME documents a girl's year-long journey to find the boy of her dreams. Growing up in the economically-depressed fishing village of Siddick, Laura-Anne filters her existence through the world of fairy tales while remaining aware that the village's boys grow into fishermen and "girls all mothers to be." Her heart is broken when first love Ben first neglects her to be with his mates and then demands back a pair of earrings to give to another girl. Having acknowledged that her affection for protective cousin Steven (who has troubles of his own) is taboo, she instead takes up with tough "foreigner" (from the next town over) Jamie who smokes and boasts of being hardened by his abusive father. Laura-Anne is destined for more heartbreak but remains hopeful of a happy ending. Fascinating in exposing the alternately juvenile and precociously mature relationships of its adolescent characters at a stage when they find themselves both too old and too young (presumably some of this self-awareness unfortunately disappears when hormones take over), the film suggests that attitudes that dictate how we view relationships take shape earlier on that most adults might find comforting.

Eric Cotenas

Theatrical Release: 27 July 2006 (UK TV)

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DVD Review: Second Run DVD - Region 0 - PAL

Big thanks to Eric Cotenas for the Review!

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Second Run DVD

Region 0 - PAL

Runtime 49:02
Video

1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio
Average Bitrate: 7.98 mb/s
PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.

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Audio English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
Subtitles none
Features Release Information:
Studio: Second Run DVD

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen - 1.33:1

Edition Details:
� co-feature 'Philip and His Seven Wives' (4:3; 1:09:24)
� 'Philip and His Seven Wives - 8 Years Later' (16:9; 14:40)
� Interview with director Marc Isaacs (16:9; 16:08)
� Booklet by critic Nick Bradshaw featuring an interview with Marc Isaacs

DVD Release Date: January 30th, 2017
Amaray

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Touted as "new digital transfers" of SD digital video-lensed productions, Second Run's transfers of SOME DAY MY PRINCE WILL COME and PHILIP AND HIS SEVEN WIVES both evince video artefacts expected of a documentary shoot that privileges the spontaneity of the subjects over pretty images. Highlights bloom, moire patterns appear in fine lines and chroma noise often in the hair and sometimes the clothing of the subjects. The Dolby Digital 2.0 mono audio fares better, although optional English subtitles would have been helpful to those of us less familiar with some of the dialects. SOME DAY MY PRINCE WILL COME is appended by an epilogue sequence shot eleven years after while a retrospective featurette for PHILIP AND HIS SEVEN WIVES is included as a separate video featurette. In the former, Isaacs reveals some scant information about what has happened to Laura-Anne in the interim while the latter features candid reflections on the film by Philip and first wife Judith. Isaacs also appears in a new interview discussing how the first film arose out of a deal to produce three films about love and the latter when his producer phoned him and told him that her cleaner had revealed that she was one of seven wives of a Hebrew king. He discusses the commonalities of the two, with the first being about the loss of innocence and the other featuring people attempting to recapture innocence.

  - Eric Cotenas


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directed by Marc Isaacs
UK 2005

 

PHILIP AND HIS SEVEN WIVES is the story of a former Rabbi/DJ in Hove visited by God and resolved to live by the word of the Old Testament as a Hebrew King on a farm with seven wives as a "Biblical covenant ... not a cheap shag." Rearing horses on the farm while his wives run four area second-hand furniture shops and raising eight children between them, Philip is not quite the cliché charismatic cult leader; indeed, he comes across as alternately nurturing, insecure, and nitpicky. Better understanding of why the seven women (eight, counting the basement-dwelling matriarch) would submit to such a domestic situation is gleaned from an exploration of where the women were in their lives when they met him, where they are now, and what they are seeking (Philip's first wife Judith expresses her love for him but also admits to at times trusting more in Philip's belief than the man himself that she was in the right place). Jealousy and other underlying tensions are addressed and sometimes unconvincingly glossed over: Philip describes one of his wives' separation from the home as a group decision while director/narrator Isaacs himself cites what the Bible's says may be done with wives who fall out of favor with their husbands. The tri-weekly round table discussion of the state of division consists of Philip haranguing his wives for their perceived faults but also reveal moments of wrenching expressions of doubt by the wives (and it seems going by the retrospective featurette that it took Philip some time to reach a similar level of emotional honesty with them and himself). A potentially exploitation-worthy documentary subject is given compelling treatment by the director's mix of candidness and restraint in capturing a group of utterly fascinating people as they present themselves to the world for better or worse.

Eric Cotenas

Theatrical Release: 14 October 2005 (UK)

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DVD Review: Second Run - Region 0 - PAL

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Second Run

Region 0 - PAL

Runtime 1:09:24
Video

1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio
Average Bitrate: 6.53 mb/s
PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.

Bitrate

Audio English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
Subtitles None
Features Release Information:
Studio: Second Run

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen - 1.33:1

Edition Details:
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