Michael Winterbottom
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 63 |
Date of birth | March 29,1961 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Blackburn |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse(s) | Sabrina Broadbent |
Height | 180 (cm) |
Job | Film director |
Film Producer | |
Screenwriter | |
Film Editor | |
Television producer | |
Filmmaker | |
Television director | |
Education | University of Oxford |
Dulwich College | |
Books | Three Lives of English Saints |
Dark Matter: Independent Filmmaking in the 21st Century | |
Awards | Silver Bear for Best Director |
BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film | |
Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature | |
Edinburgh International Film Festival Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film | |
British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film | |
Alma mater | Balliol College |
Oxford | |
Bristol University | |
Children | 2 |
Production company | Revolution Films |
Nationality | British |
Edited works | Gesta Regum Anglorum: The History of the English Kings, General Introduction and Commentary, Volume 2. Oxford Medieval Texts. |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 454910 |
24 Hour Party People
The Killer Inside Me
A Mighty Heart
The Face of an Angel
The Trip to Italy
Trishna
A Cock and Bull Story
The Look of Love
The Trip to Spain
The Road to Guantánamo
Code 46
Welcome to Sarajevo
In This World
Jude
The Claim
Wonderland
I Want You
Genova
Butterfly Kiss
The Emperor's New Clothes
The Shock Doctrine
Everyday
Go Now
The Wedding Guest
On the Road
With or Without You
Family
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Bailout
Cracker: The Mad Woman in the Attic
Greed
Under the Sun
The Trip
Michael Winterbottom Life story
Michael Winterbottom is an English film director. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films—Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People—have competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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This England: Critics mixed over Kenneth Branagh's portrayal of Boris Johnson
This England , the Sky Atlantic series which sees Kenneth Branagh portray former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson , has arrived to mixed reviews.
The six-part docudrama series recounts Johnson's Time In The Role , based on real events, testimonies and archive footage.
It focuses on the start of the Covid pandemic, his hospital admission after catching The Virus and his son's Birth .
described it as " a gruelling watch, But a mesmerising one".
Said Branagh " fails to get under Boris's skin" in Michael Winterbottom and Kieron Quirke 's series, while called This England " TV at its most triggering".
Writing for the Telegraph, Anita Singh gave the " dud" drama just two-stars, saying Branagh's " bad wig and prosthetics overshadow what could have been a serious drama about the pandemic and lockdown".
" This is A Story of care home deaths, inadequate PPE, relatives forced to say deathbed goodbyes to their loved ones over FaceTime, " She Said . " The Problem is that other dramas have told this story far better - Think of Jack Thorne 's terrific Help, starring Jodie Comer as a carer.
" Here, the sadness of those scenes is undercut by The Action switching back to Whitehall every few minutes, where an actor [Andrew Buchan ] is attempting to impersonate [former Health Secretary] Matt Hancock . "
She described the portrayal of Johnson as a " living, breathing version of Spitting Image".
'Too brilliantly realistic'Carol Midgley, writing in The Times however, opined The Show was " brilliantly realistic" offering Four Stars . " Too brilliantly realistic, " she added, noting how she had actually had to turn it off after a particularly " excruciating" death scene.
" Michael Winterbottom does a masterful job entwining The Parallel narratives of Covid approaching like a Bullet Train and Johnson distracted by his domestic dramas: his divorce, his pregnant girlfriend, Carrie, his grown-up children ignoring his voicemails, and his asking 10 Downing Street staff to 'do the honours' and Pick Up Dilyn The Dog 's poo, " she wrote.
" If This England were a cartoon character it would be Road Runner , such is the break-neck speed at which events are covered, real footage woven into the drama. "
Both journalists appeared to agree though that Johnson's Covid-induced dream sequence featuring His Family was a major mis-step.
Johnson's wife Carrie Symonds is played on The Show by Ophelia Lovibond , while his controversial chief advisor Dominic Cummings is portrayed by Simon Paisley Day.
The Guardian 's Hollie Richardson Said Branagh, seen regularly quoting William Shakespeare , was " sickeningly accurate as Boris Johnson ".
" It starts in early 2020 when Brexit, floods, a cabinet reshuffle and writing a book on Shakespeare distract Johnson from a 'mysterious Sars-like virus' outbreak in China, " she wrote.
" This programme might have been made too Soon - But perhaps its very intention is to be unsettling. "
In its three-star review, tended to agree, saying Branagh was " utterly convincing" as Johnson But that the series contained " extremely distressing scenes and fails as a drama when those events are still unfolding".
" It used to be Said that journalism provides The First draft of history, " wrote Neil Armstrong . " Now, it seems, hard on journalism's heels, comes a high-profile six-part drama. "
'Tragic theatrical hero'For the, the programme " pulls off the unusual feat of feeling simultaneously premature and dated" while turning the " floundering former Prime Minister into a tragic theatrical hero".
" For many viewers, watching a dramatisation of the pandemic while the realities of illness, loss and lockdown remain raw will seem like a pointless or masochistic endeavour, " wrote Dan Einav, while dishing out three-stars. " Those who are drawn by the Sky mini-series' Focus On the goings-on at Number 10 will find a truncated story. "
He noted how with work on the series having begun so early in the pandemic, it " culminates not with Partygate (which precipitated Boris Johnson 's political collapse) But with Dominic Cummings ' ophthalmological adventures to Barnard Castle". " While This England may be less than necessary, it does offer More Than a run-through of the early Covid timeline, " he went on. " Billed as 'a fiction based on real events', it combines an account of the government's reactive, insufficient and often careless handling of The Crisis with a strange, intriguing and speculative character study of Johnson. "
offered four-stars, agreeing The Show had " the makings of a persuasive critique of what went right and (more to The Point ) wrong when Johnsonian Britain collided with a global health crisis".
But , reviewer Gerard Gilbert added that anyone hoping for a Downing Street version of [Cromwell drama] Wolf Hall or The Crown would be " disappointed" due to the " kaleidoscopic" drama's " scattered" focus, which leaves Johnson as " an almost peripheral figure".
" This is probably not far from The Truth , " he wrote. " Branagh does a great job of impersonating Johnson's gait, mannerisms and mien (although he looks older around The Eyes than the ex-PM), without really telling us much that's new about The Man .
" But this is a thoughtful drama and hopefully a more incisive portrait will emerge. "
Source of news: bbc.com