Stella Does Tricks

Stella Does Tricks


Starring:Kelly Macdonald, James Bolam, Hans Matheson, Ewan Stewart, Andy Serkis, Paul Chahidi, Lindsay Henderson, Shaun Williamson, Nick Stringer, Claire Driver, Lisa Adam, Joyce Henderson, Richard Syms, Emma Faulkner, Molly Innes, Jennifer Todd (II), Suzanne Maddock, Antoine de Caunes, Andrzej Borkowski, Dimitri Andreas
Director: Coky Giedroyc
Studio: Strand Releasing
Product Type: DVD
Stella Does Tricks
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Stella's Past Is Playing tricks
 Stella Does Tricks
Starring: Kelly Macdonald , James Bolam , Hans Matheson , Ewan Stewart , and Andy Serkis
Director: Coky Giedroyc
Manufacturer: Strand Releasing
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005KCB1
Release Date: 2001-06-26

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Stella's Past Is Playing tricks.......2004-01-31

Stella is a young, alienated woman who is trapped by the tricks of her mind. She is driven into a life of prostitution by her mysterious past, which unfolds for the viewers in fractured, painful memories. Fragments of her childhood invade her present state of living, taking her back into a past which she longs to escape. She dreams of a redemption that will scourge her of her tortured memories, and allow her to live a new life, with her newfound love, Eddie. As she finally begins to break free of her past, Eddie's own tricks (drug use, prostitution) threaten to destroy their thread-bare happiness. Loving oneself, and forgiveness, should never be so hard.

Kelly McDonald (Stella) and Hans Matheson (Eddie) give stand-out performances in this feature debut by director Corky Giedroyc. McDonald and Matheson are sensitively waif-like, vulnerable, and utterly embraceable, as two down-trodden, drug-addicted prostitutes attempting to make the best of their young, shattered lives. Their emotional facial expressions comprise the bulk of writer A.L. Kennedy's concise dialogue. Giedroyc chose to film Stella amongst the squalid streets of Prague, slashing the scene-scapes with a distorted use of chiaroscuro, and real addict-prostitutes, whom the actors worked with prior to filming. This gives Stella Does Tricks an authentic ambiance of desperation, alienation, loneliness, and despair.
Stella Does Tricks [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ]
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    		Stella Does Tricks [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ]
    Director: Coky Giedroyc
    Manufacturer: Cinema Independent
    ProductGroup: DVD
    Binding: DVD

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    ASIN: B000FMJEGO

    Product Description

    France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Subtitles), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SYNOPSIS: Stella, a young Glaswegian girl working as a prostitute in London, heads back to Glasgow with her new boyfriend and attempts to start a new life, but finds it difficult to break free of the cycle of abuse she has become trapped in. SPECIAL FEATURES: Scene Access, Interactive Menu,

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