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UK Global Screen Fund backs 10 features including ‘A Gaza Weekend’, ‘Summerland’

‘Summerland’ will get a fresh push following an initial UK release during the pandemic.The UK Global Screen Fund is to award 10 features with support for their international distribution, including upcoming comedy A Gaza Weekend and period romance Summerland.The titles will receive a share of £273,000 allocated through the international distribution stand of the £7m […]

‘Summerland’ Director Jessica Swale on Gemma Arterton’s Delightful Spontaneity

Written and directed by Jessica Swale, the wartime drama Summerland follows Alice (Gemma Arterton), a reclusive writer with a prickly personality who is content in her solitary life in England during World War II. When she finds herself in a situation where she’s to adopt a frightened young London evacuee named Frank (Lucas Bond), he […]

Summerland review – wartime wonderment with Gemma Arterton

The British actor excels as a crotchety loner who takes in a child evacuee in Jessica Swale’s uplifting debut featureWhat a lovely, hopeful and rather magical movie this is. The feature debut from writer/director Jessica Swale, whose impressive theatre CV includes the Olivier award-winner Nell Gwynn, Summerland provides just the tonic we need in times […]

How Set Decorator Philippa Hart Used English Pastoral Landscape to Dress ‘Summerland’

Jessica Swale’s World War II-era “Summerland,” debuting on demand via IFC on July 31, turns the English coastal countryside into a character in the tale of a reclusive writer played by Gemma Arterton — and the house in which much of the action takes place serves as a portal to those surroundings.Making her feature film […]

‘Summerland’ Review: Gemma Arterton’s Rich Performance Bolsters Somewhat Soapy WWII Drama

Tucked in her seaside cottage, clattering away at her typewriter, and smoking like a chimney, Alice Lamb (Gemma Arterton) doesn’t fit in with her buttoned-up small-town Kent neighbors. Perhaps it’s the townsfolk’s predilection for referring to her as a witch? Or the punk kids who shove trash into her mailbox and run off screaming? Maybe […]

‘Summerland’ Trailer: Gemma Arterton Opens Her Home And Heart To A Boy Escaping The Horrors Of War

Over 2,000 years ago, the Roman poet Virgil gave the world three simple words which everyone should aspire to embrace: amor vincit omnia (“love conquers all”). The phrase—in Latin or English—has been used as a title for paintings, songs, albums, and books. Is it corny as hell? Yes. But is it true? Yes. In fact, […]

IFC Films Lands U.S. Rights to Gemma Arterton’s ‘Summerland’ (Exclusive)

IFC Films is acquiring U.S. rights to “

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Courtenay join Gemma Arterton in ‘Summerland’ (exclusive)

Jessica Swale’s feature debut will start shooting this summer in the UK.Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle), Tom Courtenay (45 Years) and Penelope Wilton (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) have boarded second world war-era drama Summerland which is set to star and be executive produced by Gemma Arterton.The project marks the feature debut of Olivier Award-winning playwright Jessica […]