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First Look Photo Unveiled Featuring Odessa Young + Josh O’Connor As Principal Photography Wraps On Eva Husson’s MOTHERING SUNDAY


10 November 2020

Principal photography has wrapped in the UK on Eva Husson’s MOTHERING SUNDAY, starring Odessa Young, BAFTA nominee Josh O’Connor, Oscar winner Colin Firth, Oscar winner Olivia Colman and Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, it was announced today by producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley of Number 9 Films. 

A first look image featuring Young and O’Connor as Jane and Paul respectively has been released. 

Rocket Science is handling international sales and is currently presenting the film to buyers at the American Film Market (AFM). 

As previously announced, Lionsgate UK is planning a theatrical release in 2021 and Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North America, Latin America, India, Pan Asia (excluding Japan), the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Turkey. 

The film is written by Emmy nominee Alice Birch (Normal People, Succession) and is based on the critically acclaimed and best-selling novella of the same name by Graham Swift. 

The film was developed with support from Film4 and the BFI awarding National Lottery funding, with financing from Film4, BFI and Lipsync. Film4 retain UK free TV broadcast rights.

 

 

MOTHERING SUNDAY centres on March 30, 1924 in Beechwood, England. Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young), a maid in the Niven household, has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman) attend a lunch to celebrate the engagement of their neighbour’s only remaining son, Paul (Josh O’Connor). Although Jane rejoices at her freedom on an unseasonably hot, beautiful spring day, she has no mother to go to—and for almost seven years she has, joyfully and without shame, been Paul’s lover. Like the Nivens, Paul belongs to England’s old- monied social class, whereas Jane was orphaned at birth. With the house conveniently empty, they can finally meet in Paul’s bedroom for the first time. Today will be their last as lovers. It is also the day that will mark the beginning of Jane’s transformation.

The prolific behind the scenes team includes three-time Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell (The Irishman, Mary Poppins Returns, The Favourite), BAFTA-winning hair and make-up designer Nadia Stacey (The Favourite, upcoming Cruella), BAFTA TV nominated production designer Helen Scott (A Very English ScandalWuthering Heights), BIFA nominated cinematographer Jamie Ramsay (Moffie, Beauty), and editor Emilie Orsini (Girls Of The Sun, The Party). 

Rocket Science is also selling the Number 9 Films produced LIVING at AFM, starring Bill Nighy and Aimee-Lou Wood, an adaptation of the 1952 classic Ikiru, written by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. The film has been developed with and will be funded by Film4 and Ingenious Media, in association with Kurosawa Productions, executive producer Ko Kurosawa. 

About Number 9 Films
Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen co-founded Number 9 Films in 2002, and were the recipients for the 2019 BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. 

Their joint and individual credits include COLETTE (2019), THEIR FINEST (2016), CAROL (2015), YOUTH (2015), LIMEHOUSE GOLEM (2016), BYZANTIUM (2012), MADE IN DAGENHAM (2010), LADIES IN LAVENDER (2004), THE END OF THE AFFAIR (1999)LITTLE VOICE (1998), MICHAEL COLLINS (1996), INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE (1994), BACKBEAT (1994), THE CRYING GAME (1992), SCANDAL (1989), MONA LISA (1986), and THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984). Their films have received over 100 BAFTA, Oscar®, Golden Globe®, Emmy® and PGA awards and nominations.

About Film4
Film4 is Channel 4 Television’s feature film division. Film4 develops and co-finances films and is known for working with the most distinctive and innovative talent in UK and international filmmaking, both new and established.

Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, Academy Award®-winners such as Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite, Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia’s box office record breaking documentary Amy, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire and Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady, in addition to critically-acclaimed award-winners such as Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War, Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not a Witch, Chris Morris’s Four Lions, Shane Meadows’ This is England, Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin and Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years.

Film4’s recent releases include Rose Glass’s Saint Maud, Sarah Gavron’s Rocks, Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, Coky Giedroyc’s adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s How To Build a Girl, Nick Rowland’s Calm With Horses, Michael Winterbottom’s Greed, Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang and Asif Kapadia’s Diego Maradona. Forthcoming releases include Jonathan Butterell’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, Florian Zeller’s The Father, Euros Lyn’s Dream Horse, Ben Sharrock’s Limbo and Cathy Brady’s Wildfire. Films in production include Eva Husson’s Mothering Sunday, Michael Pearce’s Invasion, Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor, Will Sharpe’s Louis Wain, Rebecca Hall’s Passing, and Chasing Chaplin from Peter Middleton and James Spinney.

About The BFI
The BFI Film Fund invests over £30 million of National Lottery funding a year into developing and supporting filmmakers with diverse, bold and distinctive projects, that have a cultural relevance or progressive ideas, and which reflect people from different backgrounds, as well as a range of activities to increase the opportunities for audiences to enjoy them. 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, BFI funds across features and talent development are open and are processing applications and awarding funds as quickly as possible.

The BFI supported eight feature films that premiered at the BFI London Film Festival this year: After Love written and directed by Aleem Khan, also selected for Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival; the Festival’s closing night premiere Ammonite, written and directed by Francis Lee and starring Saorise Ronan and Kate Winslet; Herself directed by Phyllida Lloyd and starring Clare Dunne which world premiered at Sundance; Limbo written and directed by Ben Sharrock; Yemi Bamiro’s feature debut One Man and His Shoes Supernova, directed by Harry Macqueen starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci; Sundance World Documentary Audience winner The Reason I Jump from Jerry Rothwell;  and Wildfire written and directed by Cathy Brady.

Also on the BFI slate are Mitch Jenkins’ The Show written by Alan Moore and starring Tom Burke and based on Aneil Karia’s Sundance World Dramatic Competition title Surge which won Ben Whishaw an Audience Award for Acting. 

Recent and upcoming releases include: The Roads Not Taken directed by Sally Potter and starring Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning and Salma Hayek which premiered at the Berlinale; Saint Maud, the debut feature from Rose Glass; Rocks from award-winning director Sarah Gavron and producer Faye Ward, which both premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival; the award-winning debut feature Lynn + Lucy directed by Fyza Boulifa; and Eternal Beauty, written and directed by Craig Roberts; Rialto, the sophomore feature from director Peter Mackie Burns and several debut features including Body of Water, from writer/director Lucy Brydon; and Looted from Rene Pannevis and Chino Moya’s Undergods.

Currently in prep, production or post are Ali & Ava directed by Clio Barnard starring Adeel Aktar and Claire Rushbrook; The Souvenir – Part II directed by Joanna Hogg starring Tilda Swinton and Richard Ayoade; True Things, directed by Harry Wootliff and starring Ruth Wilson; Benediction, written and directed by Terence Davies and starring Jack Lowden; Pirates, the feature directorial debut from Reggie Yates; Censor directed by Prano Bailey-Bond starring Niamh Algar; Chasing Chaplin from three-time BAFTA nominees Peter Middleton and James Spinney; and Triangle of Sadness, Ruben Östlund’s English-language debut, starring Woody Harrelson. 

The BFI is the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and the moving image. It is a distributor of National Lottery funding and a cultural and education charity that:

Curates and presents the greatest international public programme of world cinema for audiences; in cinemas, at festivals and online 

  • Cares for the BFI National Archive – the most significant film and television archive in the world
  • Actively seeks out and supports the next generation of filmmakers 
  • Works with Government and industry to make the UK the most creatively exciting and prosperous place to make film internationally

Founded in 1933, the BFI is a registered charity governed by Royal Charter. The BFI Board of Governors is chaired by Josh Berger CBE.

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