The Beach

the Beach is a Anglo-American film carried out by Danny Boyle in 2000 and adapted novel The Beach of Alex Garland

Synopsis

Richard is young American left in Thailand to live an experiment in margin of the tourist tours. It is quickly disappointed to find only Westerners in evil of feelings in the district of the routards of Kaosan. One night, with the hotel, it meets Daffy, an insane man who speaks to him about a legendary and paradisiac island where a community folded up on itself would live, in communion with nature. The following day, Richard discovers the corpse of Daffy, which probably committed suicide after him to have left the chart of the island. Richard convainct a couple of young French, Etienne and Francoise, to accompany it in her search to find the island.

Data sheet

French Title: the Beach
original Title: The Beach
Realization: Danny Boyle
Scenario: Alex Garland (Romance original), John Hodge
Production company: Producing Figment Films
: Callum McDougall
Original music: Angelo Badalamenti
Director of the photography: Darius Khondji
Assembly: Masahiro Hirakubo
Coming out date: February 16th 2000
Film English American
Format: Color, numerical Dolby, 2:35.1 Cinemascope, 35mm
Kind: Dramatic comedy
Lasted: 119 minutes

Distribution

Leonardo DiCaprio: Richard
Tilda Swinton: Sal
Virginia Ledoyen: Francoise
Guillaume Canet: Etienne
Robert Carlyle: Daffy
Paterson Joseph: Keaty
Lars Arentz-Hansen : Bugs
James Cosmo: Zeph
Eileen Nicholas : Sammy
Susan Vidler : Sonja
Pauline Lynch: Weathergirl
Helene de Fougerolles: An young woman
Elizabeth Thomas: a member of the community to shaven cranium

Band-original

Snakeblood , interpreted by Leftfield
Pure Shores , interpreted by All Saints
Porcelain , interpreted by Moby
Voices , interpreted by Dario G
8 Ball , interpreted by Underworld
Spinning away , interpreted by Sugar Ray
Return off Django , interpreted by Asian Dub Foundation
One your own , interpreted by Blur
Yeke Yeke (Hardware floor remix) , interpreted by Mory Kanté
Woozy , interpreted by Faithless
Richard, It' S Business , interpreted by Barry Adamson
Brutal , interpreted by New Order
Drunk Lonely , interpreted by UNKLE
Beached , interpreted by Orbital and Angelo Badalamenti
Out Off Control , interpreted by The Chemical Brothers

Comment

The film was made on the island of Phi Phi Lee and would have caused many damage with its ecosystem, information contradicted by the production.

Full number of entries in France: 2.279.427 according to this source

External bonds

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