A Closed Book

A Closed Book (2012)

She has a secret he can’t see.

Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has another agenda. Incrementally, Sir Paul's familiar surroundings are altered. His housekeeper is diverted away, strange things happen around the house and he becomes increasingly dependent on his new assistant.

Date of release
2012-07-13
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (27)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Director
Raúl Ruiz

Casting

Interesting facts

A Closed Book is a 2010 British film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, based on the 2000 novel of the same name by Gilbert Adair, about a blind author who employs an assistant to help him write his novels. Throughout the film the assistant starts to play crueler and crueler tricks on her employer. The film stars Daryl Hannah as assistant Jane Ryder, and Tom Conti as author Sir Paul. A Closed Book was filmed at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, England.

Production

The film's script was written by Gilbert Adair, author of the novel that the film was originally based upon.

When asked about the film during an interview with author Michael Goddard, who wrote The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies, director Ruiz said: "I had some problems with that from that maybe you know; it's that the way that films are produced in England is radically different from how films are produced in many other countries.

This film was one of Ruiz's last before his death in 2011. It was released straight-to-DVD in the UK, Australia and New Zealand following its 2009 Cannes market premiere. Ruiz's first name in credits is given his seldom-used, non-Spanish spelling of Raoul, possibly due to the picture's British identity.

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