Getting Gilliam

Getting Gilliam (2005)

This documentary follows director Terry Gilliam through the process of making his film Tideland.

Data di uscita
2005-09-01
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (10)
Durata
45 min
Generi
Documentario
Regista
Vincenzo Natali

Cast

Curiosità

Tideland is a 2005 fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, following the story of Jeliza-Rose, a young child who struggles to make sense of life in isolation as she lives with an eccentric adult brother and sister in rural Texas after the death of her drug-addicted, abusive parents. It is an adaptation of Mitch Cullin's novel of the same name. The film was shot in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and the surrounding area in late 2004. The world premiere was at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival where the film received a mixed response from both viewers and critics. After little interest from U.S. distributors, THINKFilm picked the film up for a U.S.

Production

Tideland, despite being set in rural Texas, was filmed in the prairies of western Canada, with interiors shot in Saskatchewan. Terry Gilliam was enamoured by the original novel by Mitch Cullin, having discovered the book in a stack of unread books on his desk in 2001. He described the novel as "funny, touching and disturbing all at the same time".

The film's crew had initial trouble financing the film, but they were eventually able to get things in order. Rather than Jeliza-Rose narrating the story in first-person as in the novel, the screenplay was written in third person.

Qu'Appelle Valley served as the location for the decrepit house of Dell and Dickens, and also for Noah's old family home where he takes Jeliza-Rose. The harsh Canadian weather meant that the crew had to rush to finish the film before conditions became too difficult. Casting Jeliza-Rose was also difficult; roughly 400 Canadian girls auditioned for the role, none of whom Gilliam felt had "a real soul" for the character.

Production designer Jasna Stefanovic, who worked on most of the aesthetics and sets for Tideland, took heavy inspiration from Andrew Wyeth paintings and Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. While the film portrayed disturbing and grotesque scenes of taxidermy and a trapped live squirrel, no animals were actually harmed during the production.

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