Glasgow Film Festival 2013: Shell - Interview with Director Scott Graham and Star Chloe Pirrie

Director Scott Graham and star of Shell Chloe Pirrie give us an insight into the process of preparing to shoot Shell and the significance of using the landscape of the Highlands in a story of isolation.
The debut feature of Scots director Scott Graham delivers on all the promise of his short films. Set in a striking vision of the wild Scottish Highlands, it features a star-making performance from newcomer Chloe Pirrie as Shell, a teenager living in a remote service station with her father Pete (Joseph Mawle), a dour, damaged shadow of a man. Shell is as alive as the howling wind and as glowing as the pale moonlight. The film is all the more poignant for the way it contrasts her curious, luminous presence with the starkness of the surroundings and her growing sense of a waiting world outside her experience.

[@Fyodor48]

Just to add to what others are saying, a wonderful, yet profoundly sad film, but, the ending and the half smile from the main character, gives us all a sense of hope for her future. Super stuff.

[@tonyurmate]

I've watched the film for the first time yesterday and I thought it was a moving film. fantastic actors 😊

[@RyanReece55]

Beautiful film.

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Robbie.

[@broarmy8507]

This movie made me cry real badddd..I hate it!