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Michael Winterbottom
Birth at
29 March 1961
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He was born on 29 March 1961 in Blackburn, Lancashire. He graduated from Oxford (specialty - English), then studied filmmaking at the University of Bristol. He began his professional career working as an editor on the Thames Television channel, subsequently made a documentary about Ingmar Bergman and several television series in collaboration with screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce. Winterbottom’s biggest achievement during his time on television was the four-part social drama Family (1994) scripted
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He was born on 29 March 1961 in Blackburn, Lancashire. He graduated from Oxford (specialty - English), then studied filmmaking at the University of Bristol. He began his professional career working as an editor on the Thames Television channel, subsequently made a documentary about Ingmar Bergman and several television series in collaboration with screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce. Winterbottom’s biggest achievement during his time on television was the four-part social drama Family (1994) scripted by Roddy Doyle. In 1994, together with producer Andrew Eaton, he formed Revolution Films and soon made his debut as an independent director with The Butterfly Kiss (1995), an action-packed story about a lesbian couple traveling the roads of northern England, committing one murder after another. In the same year, another film of the director appeared - "Now Go", which was kept in a completely different vein. This was the story of the life of a man suffering from multiple sclerosis, who, despite a severe illness, managed to find the strength not to bend under the cruel blows of fate. It was followed by an adaptation of Thomas Gardy's novel "Jude" (1996) with the participation of Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet, the military drama of recent times "Welcome to Sarajevo", dedicated to the events in Yugoslavia (1997, a nomination for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival), the tragic and criminal love story "I Want You" (1998). To date, Michael Winterbottom is one of the most famous (and undoubtedly prolific) directors of the new British cinema - his paintings of recent years, whether it is the next adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Golden Dust (2000), the story about the formation of the rock scene in Manchester "The Round-the-clock party" (2002) or the story of a young Afghan refugee "In This World" (2002) invariably arouse interest both critics and a wide audience. So different in their manner, in the chosen theme, almost all of his films are imbued with social realism and the desire to find new approaches to this style, traditional for British cinema. However, over time, Winterbottom somewhat moved away from his chosen realistic manner, putting the futuristic thriller Code 46 (2003) and the experimental erotic melodrama Nine Songs (2004).
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