38 CinÉireann / January 2018
GOOD FAVOUR
DIR: REBECCA DALY
PRO: SAVAGE PRODUCTIONS
Director Rebecca Daly's (The Other Side of Sleep, Mammal) third feature film is a parable that follows a young man named Tom who walks out of an immense forest into the lives of a strictly devout Christian community carving out a remote existence in central Europe. As Tom is initiated into their farming life and scriptural regime, he discovers the community is suffering a crisis of faith following a devastating loss.
Good Favour, which Daly wrote with her long-time screenwriting partner Glenn Montgomery, premiered at the Toronto International Film festival last year, before playing the Les Arcs European Film Festival. It stars Vincent Romeo, Lars Brygmann, Clara Rugaard, Alexandre Willaume, Victoria Mayer, and Helena Coppejans.
Good Favour is produced by John Keville and Conor Barry of Savage Productions alongside Benoit Roland of Wrong Men, and Monica Hellstrom, Signe Byrge Sorensen, and Marleen Slot. It was financed by the Irish Film Board with the support of Wallonia le Centre du Cinéma et de L’audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, the Danish Film Institute, and Netherlands Film Fund with support by FilmFyn.
"This third feature from Rebecca Daly possesses the stark air of parable. Yet its characters, activities, and plot are too perfectly detailed to read as a one-to-one allegory about, say, isolationism, the refugee crisis, or the limits of organized religion. To be sure, Good Favour speaks to all these themes, yet it treads its own path — and every step resounds with intrigue." - Michèle Maheux, TIFF
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