The Wah-wah Diaries: The Making Of A Film

  • ISBN: 9780330443470
  • Author: Richard E. Grant
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    Richard E Grant's frank personal diary charting the ups and downs of the making of "Wah-Wah", his first movie as writer and director. Ten years after the publication of "With Nails", Richard E Grant's brilliant memoir of his years in Hollywood, Picador are proud to be publishing "Wah-Wah", the very personal diaries of his debut behind the camera, as writer and director of his autobiographical movie of the same name. It is both a fascinating insight into the intrigues and agonies he encounters along the way, and also a deeply moving portrait of his childhood and his love affair with Swaziland, where he was born and brought up during the last throes of the British Empire. Through the mayhem - never-ending financial pressures; hostilities and finally breakdown of communication with his Producer; the nerve-racking quest to persuade the King of Swaziland to grant permission to film in his country; the assembly of a stellar cast including Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, and Julie Walters - Richard E Grant has written, with characteristic humour and charm, an extraordinarily honest and revealing account of a labour of love and the realisation of a dream. From the Publisher WAH-WAH FILM REVIEWS ‘Grant surprises with his latest role behind the camera, for the first time, as the writer and director of the autobiographical Wah-Wah (15) ***. It is a supremely confident debut. . . . Grant's evocation of these end-of-Empire years is surefooted, vividly depicting the Brits' governance of the country as a swirl of cocktails and cricket . . . Wah-Wah is mostly a likeable and heart-warming film.’- Mail on Sunday ‘The debut writer-director's persistence has paid off. The result is an involving, terrifically-acted picture, beautifully shot on location, that deftly combines a young boy's coming of age with a portrait of the end of an age. . . . Grant, appropriately enough, has created some fabulous roles for his actors and they seize the opportunity with relish . . . There are many memorable moments and some amusing dialogue. Wah-Wah is an engaging, heartfelt film that makes full use of some of our best acting talents, with one of them, Grant himself, excelling behind the camera.’- Sunday Express ‘No one can ever accuse Grant of scrimping on story. The actor's directorial debut, a semi-autobiographical account of colonial life in 1970s Swaziland, is positively bursting with incident.’- Times ‘Sharply observed. He has a decent eye as a cinematic director - unlike most first-time efforts by actors, this doesn't look as if it was made for television. He's undoubtedly a talent, and an interesting prospect.’- Daily Mail ‘Richard E Grant makes a pretty good job of his first foray into directing. We're very much in White Mischief/Empire of the Sun territory . . . Grant fills his story with lots of pungent detail.’- Guardian ‘What could have been an unbearably middle class Brit flick and an exercise in luvvie-ness transcends itself thanks to the intelligence, wit and directorial flair Grant exercises. Wah-Wah is imbued with a superb sun-burnt wash, is seeped in retro 70s style and all the performances sing like crystal glass rubbed. But why Wah-Wah is truly special is that Grant has given it real heart . . . the result is a deeply impressive debut feature about how much families love, abuse, hurt each other and live to laugh another day’- Film Review ‘Honest, moving, rousing, tear inducing . . . painfully funny, searingly sad’- Eve --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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