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DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
‘BLITHE SPIRIT’ is a free screen adaptation of Noel Coward’s play, taking us to the heady world of rich unspeakable privilege that was the Hamptons of late 1920’s America. A fantasy cautionary tale of love won and lost and the ironies that lie between.
Three narcissists and an amateur medium with
a secret gives us a sexy explosive comedy that
unfolds amongst the privileged elite.Think ‘Great Gatsby’ with a twist of ‘Grey Gardens’... a world dripping in money and excess populated by those with a healthy appetite for self obsession.
Ruth, Charles and Elvira are gloriously selfish and very, very rich.Their preferred social circles
lie amongst the late 1920’s playgrounds of the East Coast Hamptons elite.
Their lives are torn apart forever by Madame Arcati, an eccentric European émigré living an solated life by the sea.
Madame Arcati is still struggling with the loss
of her young husband some years before in WW1. She dabbles in spiritualism in a vain effort to speak with him again, as hers is a grief that she cannot come to terms with.
Charles Condomine is a celebrity novelist who has made and spent vast amounts of money from
a string of bestsellers.
Widowed at the height of his fame, he remarries society socialite Ruth De Wolf who, with her publishing mogul father, props up his career with huge advances that he promptly fritters away on his excessive lifestyle.