Silence Becomes You (2005)

User Rating:

3.9/10   

Director:

Stephanie Sinclaire

Writer:

Stephanie Sinclaire (writer)

Release Date:

11 May 2006 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

The Perfect Sin.

Plot:

The tale of two sisters, bound by more than blood, who bring home a man on a dare, only to see the situation spiral out of control.

Plot Keywords:

Mansion | Bar Scene | Blindfold | Burning Man | Sex Scene

Cast

Alicia Silverstone	...	Violet
Sienna Guillory	...	Grace
Joe Anderson	...	Luke
Leigh Lawson	...	Father
Vaida Buyte	...	Mother
Jessica Suffield	...	Young Grace
Elizabeth Pliuchkina	...	Young Violet
Melanie Giliati	...	Gee Gee
Dan Crawford	...	Concierge
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Griet van Damme	...	Angel McCoy (uncredited)

Directed by
Stephanie Sinclaire

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Stephanie Sinclaire		writer

Produced by
Robert Bevan	....	executive producer
Guy Collins	....	executive producer
Antonio De Campos	....	associate producer
James Fortey	....	associate producer
Brian Freeston	....	executive producer
Tõnis Haavel	....	executive producer
Keith Hayley	....	executive producer
Angela Jackson	....	executive producer
Rand Marsh	....	associate producer
Frederick Muller	....	line producer
John O'Quigley	....	executive producer
Jonathan Rae	....	associate producer
Karl Richards	....	producer
David Rose	....	executive producer
Michael Ryan	....	executive producer
Charlie Savill	....	executive producer
Ashley Sidaway	....	co-producer
Robert Sidaway	....	co-producer
Stephanie Sinclaire	....	producer
Fumiko Thomas	....	associate producer
Robertas Urbonas	....	co-producer
Howard Weiss	....	executive producer
Nigel Wooll	....	executive producer
William Ylasic	....	associate producer

Original Music by
David Schweitzer

Cinematography by
Arturo Smith		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Toby Yates

Casting by
Elzbieta Orsevskaité

Production Design by
Augis Kepezinskas

Art Direction by
Darius Bastys
Jack Cardiff

Set Decoration by
Elli Griff
Asta Urbonaite

Costume Design by
Elizabeth Wilson

Makeup Department
Sherman Hawthorne	....	key hair stylist
Lesley Lamont-Fisher	....	makeup designer
Egle Mikalauskaite	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Agne Silickaite	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Andrius Brazas	....	assistant director
Agne Januskyte	....	second assistant director
Steve Newton	....	first assistant director
Inga Paskeviciuté	....	second second assistant director
Simas Stasiunas	....	third assistant director

Art Department
Rimantas Gailius	....	assistant property master
Gediminas Gerulis	....	props
Irmantas Kavaliauskas	....	property master
Rimantas Leiga	....	construction coordinator
Aurika Seleniene	....	set dresser
Sandra Urbonaite	....	set dresser

Sound Department
Ben Brazier	....	sound editor
Wayne Brooks	....	sound designer
Clive Copland	....	sound mixer
Mathew Knights	....	sound re-recording mixer
Jerome McCann	....	boom operator
Chris Roberts	....	adr editor
Chris Roberts	....	adr supervisor
Chris Roberts	....	dialogue editor

Special Effects by
Juozas Buscikas	....	special effects technician
Scott McIntyre	....	special effects
Edvinas Urbonas	....	special effects coordinator
Pavel Valentinovic	....	special effects technician

Visual Effects by
David Bush	....	visual effects supervisor
Jack Cardiff	....	visual effects coordinator
Jonathan Cheetham	....	digital effects artist
Mirko Echghi-Ghamsari	....	digital effects artist
Thomas Hansen	....	visual effects
Clare Heneghan	....	digital effects artist
Clare Heneghan	....	visual effects supervisor
Richard Ketteridge	....	visual effects editor
Andrew Keys	....	visual effects
Justin Lanchbury	....	digital intermediate coordinator
Enrico Perei	....	digital compositing artist
Michael Ralla	....	digital compositor
Verena Scheunemann	....	digital compositor
Steve Shaw	....	digital intermediate supervisor
Steve Shaw	....	digital production supervisor
Steve Shaw	....	visual effects supervisor
Eric Westphal	....	digital effects artist

Camera and Electrical Department
Joe Allen	....	gaffer
Algis Babravicius	....	still photographer
Marc Dando	....	digital lab supervisor
Ross Fall	....	director of photography: second unit
Simas Gricius	....	electrician
Zdislav Jagelo	....	best boy electric
Florian Rettich	....	digital imaging technician
Uli Schmidt	....	camera operator
Christine Wagner	....	first assistant camera
Linas Zilys	....	key grip

Editorial Department
Jonas Maksvytis	....	assistant editor
Shaheen Sidhwa	....	post-production coordinator
Gareth Spensley	....	colorist

Music Department
Steve Parr	....	music mixer
Steve Parr	....	music recordist

Transportation Department
Michail Prochucianov	....	transportation coordinator

Other crew
Peter Bevan	....	assistant to producers
Paul Dray	....	laboratory contact
Sophie Evans	....	co-production associate
Stephen French	....	documentary filmmaker
Kash Javaid	....	unit publicist
John O'Quigley	....	data technical manager
Margaret A. Thompson	....	production coordinator
Mary Thompson	....	assistant production coordinator
Vilija Urbonaviciute	....	assistant production coordinator
Asta Valciukaite	....	location manager
Jude Winstanley	....	accounting assistant
Peter Winstanley	....	production accountant

Thanks
Teddy Ogilvie-Thompson	....	special thanks
Kate Sidaway	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Baltic Film Group
• Dragonfly Films
• IMS 3 LLP

Distributors

• Filmlichter (2006) (Germany) (theatrical)
• First Look International (2005) (USA) (theatrical)
• First Look International (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• e-m-s the DVD-Company (2006) (Germany) (DVD)

Special Effects

• MotionFX (visual effects)

Other Companies

• Digilab Services  digital film workflow
• Digital Praxis  digital film supervision
• MotionFX  post-production
• Sapex Scripts  post-production script services

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality and language.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

UK | Lithuania

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | Singapore:R21 | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Vilnius, Lithuania

Company:

Baltic Film Group

Trivia:

Filmed entirely with a high-definition (1920x1080) video camera with a true 16x9 aspect ratio. The film's dailies were projected each night onto a custom-designed ten foot screen with a special HD projector, developed especially for this job. The publicity material called this movie, "The world's first 100% digital cinematography feature film."

Quotes:

Grace: How would you tame a horse?
Luke: Break its spirit.
Grace: And how do you tame a woman?
Luke: Break her heart.

Movie Connections:

Features The Tell-Tale Heart (2004)

Interesting idea, but executed extremely poorly

1 star because I could not vote any lower.

I think whoever wrote this, as well as the director, were apparently stoned out of their heads on acid.

The idea was interesting - two sisters Grace (Sienna Guillory) and Violet (Alicia Silverstone), the oldest probably approaching her 40's, the younger in her thirties, living in an fantasy world of insanity, have a plan that involves inviting a drifter they meet at a bar, to their home.

I got the impression the plan was supposed to be for one or perhaps both of them to become pregnant, but things so awry when Luke (Joe Anderson)begins trying to persuade Violet to go away with him. In keeping with today's idea of what looks sexy, this young man was so grungy he looked like an unwashed weasel and as if he had been sleeping under a bridge for several months. What either of these women could possibly see in him, I can't imagine.

What ruins this film is the way in which the story is told. The dialog was the strangest, most nonsensical I think I have ever heard in a film. This was accompanied by odd behavior that was frequently completely meaningless and oft repeated flashbacks of their deceased father, who definitely was insane by anybody's standards.