RIP: Screenwriter and film director dies aged 77
Most recent film was Benediction. Cannes prize for Distant Voices, Still Lives.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67041682
One of the great contemporary British filmmakers, a visual poet, and still working so recently that this has come as a true shock. I’m happy that his last film, ‘Benediction’, was such a remarkable achievement, up there with his very best, but this is a truly saddening loss.
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