Mrs. Peppercorn’s Magical Reading Room
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“Mrs. Peppercorn’s Magical Reading Room” is a gorgeous 24-minute family-friendly fantasy short film by British filmmaker Mike Le Han, which is rapidly acquiring a cult following in the U.K. and further afield.
Softly-spoken, with an unfashionable English Midlands accent, and wearing 1970s-style chest-length hair, Le Han looks like everybody’s idea of a hard-working rock band roadie. His style may appear retro, but he is clearly a very persuasive man since everyone involved in “Mrs. Peppercorn” donated their services. This left the production costs coming in at a miserly $50,500, all raised by family and friends. Remarkably, “Mrs. Peppercorn’s Magical Reading Room” boasts the kind of performances and production values normally found in a big-budget blockbuster.
The film is both magical and mysterious, and from the opening frame it creates a dark world where things go bump in the night and mystery lies around every corner. “Mrs. Peppercorn” tells of a lonely child who is forced to move by her adopted parents to a remote and spooky Cornish fishing village in the dead of winter. The story is rich in atmospherics in the way it shows how the child finds solace in a mysterious, dust-encrusted bookshop that satisfies her craving for reading and, more important, gives her a sense of belonging.
This piece includes colorful photographs, as well as the acclaimed and richly imaginative short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/mrs-peppercorns-magical-reading-room...
Softly-spoken, with an unfashionable English Midlands accent, and wearing 1970s-style chest-length hair, Le Han looks like everybody’s idea of a hard-working rock band roadie. His style may appear retro, but he is clearly a very persuasive man since everyone involved in “Mrs. Peppercorn” donated their services. This left the production costs coming in at a miserly $50,500, all raised by family and friends. Remarkably, “Mrs. Peppercorn’s Magical Reading Room” boasts the kind of performances and production values normally found in a big-budget blockbuster.
The film is both magical and mysterious, and from the opening frame it creates a dark world where things go bump in the night and mystery lies around every corner. “Mrs. Peppercorn” tells of a lonely child who is forced to move by her adopted parents to a remote and spooky Cornish fishing village in the dead of winter. The story is rich in atmospherics in the way it shows how the child finds solace in a mysterious, dust-encrusted bookshop that satisfies her craving for reading and, more important, gives her a sense of belonging.
This piece includes colorful photographs, as well as the acclaimed and richly imaginative short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/mrs-peppercorns-magical-reading-room...
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