Wasp (2003)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Andrea Arnold

Writer:

Andrea Arnold (writer)

Genre:

Short | Drama

Plot:

Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food...

Plot Keywords:

Children | Single Mother | Pub

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 21 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Natalie Press	...	Zoë
Danny Dyer	...	Dave
Jodie Mitchell	...	Kelly
Molly Griffiths	...	Sinead
Kaitlyn Raynor	...	Leanne
Danny Daley	...	Kai
Lizzie Colbert	...	Bullet-head
Ashley Routledge	...	Brown-haired girl
Tabitha Crewe	...	Barmaid

Directed by
Andrea Arnold

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Andrea Arnold		writer

Produced by
Caroline Cooper	....	executive producer (as Caroline Cooper Charles)
Eve Harrison	....	video producer
Andrew Litvin	....	line producer
Natasha Marsh	....	producer
Nic Muirson	....	executive producer (as Nic Murison)

Cinematography by
Robbie Ryan		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Nicolas Chaudeurge

Casting by
Kate Brasier
Des Hamilton
Amanda Tabak

Production Design by
Helen Scott

Costume Design by
Merryn Conaway

Makeup Department
Wendy Bombrick	....	hair assistant
Wendy Bombrick	....	makeup assistant
Merryn Conaway	....	makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Kate Brasier	....	third assistant director
Josh Hyams	....	second assistant director
Paul Monaghan	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Nathan Lines	....	props assistant
Tina Lines	....	props assistant
Ocean Tunley	....	props assistant

Sound Department
Steph Baldini	....	sound recordist
Karima Benchemakh	....	boom operator
Chris Burdon	....	dubbing mixer
Neil Herd	....	sound recordist
Rupert Ivey	....	sound recordist
Kate Norrington	....	tracklayer
Ben Norrington	....	supervising sound editor (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Adam Gascoyne	....	compositor
Olly Nash	....	animator

Camera and Electrical Department
Holly Horner	....	unit photographer
Simon Vickery	....	additional camera operator

Casting Department
Holly McAlister	....	casting assistant

Other crew
Horace Baker	....	wasp wrangler
Taryn Gruber	....	production assistant
Kate Jewell	....	floor runner
Alex Knights	....	titles
Jamie McInerney	....	floor runner
Sheleena Naidoo	....	production assistant
Jo Sheehan	....	location manager

Thanks
Kelvin Arnold	....	thanks
Robert Bray	....	thanks
Lisa Bryer	....	thanks
Livia Burton	....	thanks
Netty Crabbe	....	thanks
Jane Davis	....	thanks
Jeremy Gawade	....	thanks (as Jeremy Gawde)
Louise Gow	....	thanks
Des Hamilton	....	thanks
Tracey Josephs	....	thanks
Max Longton-Lockton	....	thanks (as Max Langton Lockton)
Teresa Moneo	....	thanks
Gerardine O'Flynn	....	thanks
Phil Salter	....	thanks
Charles Steel	....	thanks
Carly Stone	....	thanks
Tony Wall	....	thanks
John Whitehead	....	thanks
Ira Zloczower	....	thanks

Production Companies

• FilmFour
• UK Film Council
• Cowboy Films

Other Companies

• Bureau, The  short film consultants
• Commercial Eyes  negative cutting
• Framestore CFC  thanks
• Kodak  film stock
• Swiss Effects  thanks

Runtime:

26 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Company:

FilmFour

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005) (TV)

Soundtrack:

When You Say Nothin' At All

Joins The Ranks of The Music Box

The winner for best short film at the 2005 Oscars,this well-made,gritty and honest film seems to me to have a very ambivalent attitude towards it's main character Zoe(convincingly played by Nathalie Press).

A single mother living on a grim council estate,she's prepared to scrap with a woman who attacked her kids by going to her house dressed merely in a nightie,then uses the most foul,gutter language in front of them(all pre-teen).Capable of behaving like an sweet angel one minute,and a gross harridan the next,she attempts to have some fun with a sympathetic suitor(Danny Dyer),but with no partner or babysitter in sight this is doomed to failure,with dire consequences for her children,left outside a pub.

The film charts the difficulties that such women face(or perhaps bring on themselves),and the subject of social services is frequently brought up.But is there a happy ending in store with the would-be suitor? The film will probably have different interpretations by Social Libreals and Right-Wing Fundamental Moralists because of this ambivalence.Despite it's undoubted quality,Laurel & Hardy's THE MUSIC BOX(1932),is still the best short ever awarded the Oscar for me!