Silver Haze movie storyline. Franky (23) suspects Jane, her mother’s best friend, of setting fire to the pub where she was sleeping as a child, and has since been looking for revenge. When she meets Florence, a girl with whom she falls deeply in love, she runs away from home. Together, Franky and Florence throw a petrol bomb through Jane’s window. While Franky’s sister becomes a convert, the unexpected death of someone dear helps Franky to forgive.
Silver Haze is a 2023 drama film, written and directed by Sacha Polak and starring Vicky Knight, Esmé Creed-Miles, Charlotte Knight, Archie Brigden and Angela Bruce. The film follows 23-year-old Franky, a nurse who, obsessed with a thirst for revenge and a need to assign guilt for a traumatic event that happened 15 years before, is unable to build any meaningful relationship until she falls in love with one of her patients – Florence.
Silver Haze had its premiere on February 19, 2023, as part of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, in Panorama. It was nominated to compete for the Panorama Audience Award at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on February 19, 2023. The film was also nominated for Best Feature Film Teddy Award, but it won Teddy Award Jury prize.
It was reported on 9 December 2022, that Poland-based sales agent New Europe Film Sales has acquired the worldwide rights. They have already sold the film to The Jokers for distribution in France and Cineart in Benelux. In June 2023, BFI Distribution acquired distribution rights to the film for the United Kingdom and Ireland. The film was screened at 2023 BFI London Film Festival in ‘Strand’ section under ‘Love’ theme on October 6, 2023.
Film Review for Silver Haze
Here is a tough drama of damaged lives which reunites director Sacha Polak with lead performer Vicky Knight, the star of her 2019 film Dirty God. Knight has spoken with courage about her own childhood experiences of being scarred in a pub fire in London and this film draws on her life, both in terms of her survivor’s story and her adult existence; like her character, she has worked in healthcare.
Knight plays Franky, a nurse haunted by memories of the blaze that injured her, and also by her unresolved feelings about her errant dad who ran out on the family when she was little. Franky falls in love with a troubled patient called Florence (Esmé Creed-Miles), who has tried to take her own life.
Franky’s own home life with her sister and mother is complex and difficult and although Franky and Florence have their vulnerability and loneliness in common, she finds herself drawn into something approaching a quasi-daughter relationship with Florence’s caring foster mum Alice, as the relationship begins to disintegrate; this is a wise and warm performance from Angela Bruce.
Silver Haze is a sombre, thoughtful film about depression and what is (and isn’t) likely to promote emotional healing, performed with openness and honesty. It is a movie about anger and pain and often this makes for an angry and painful film, and it can be a tough watch sometimes. Some parts of it are more rewarding than others, and I found scenes of attempted vengeful violence alienating, realistic though their inclusion arguably is. But the relationships between Franky and Florence, and Franky and Alice, are managed with redemptive humanity and warmth.
Silver Haze (2023)
Directed by: Sacha Polak
Starring: Vicky Knight, Esme Creed-Miles, Charlotte Knight, Archie Brigden, Brandon Bendell, Nicola Bland, Nicola Bland, Carrie Bunyan, TerriAnn Cousins, Alfie Deegan, Sarah-Jane Dent
Screenplay by: Sacha Polak
Production Design by: Elena Isolini
Cinematography by: Tibor Dingelstad
Film Editing by: Lot Rossmark
Music by: Joris Oonk, Ella van der Woude
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Dar Star Pictures (United States), British Film Institute – BFI (United Kingdom)
Release Date: June 11, 2023
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