This Beautiful Fantastic (2016)
- Directed by
- Simon Aboud
- Genre
- comedy film, fantasy film, melodrama
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 347 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young woman with OCD struggles to keep her life tidy and controlled. When her elderly neighbor demands she fix his wild overgrown garden, she must learn to accept imperfection and find connection.
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What happens
This Beautiful Fantastic is a 2016 British romantic drama film directed and written by Simon Aboud and starring Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine, Anna Chancellor, and Eileen Davies. Aboud explained that the idea of Bella's OCD came from his own personal experience, explaining that "the symbolism in the film of Bella's experience with nature" where in her life everything has to be under control, is confronted by Alfie's garden "...the opposite of what she's dealing with — his garden is wild, he doesn't try to control it... for me, I wanted to explore the possibility of her embracing the “mess” of the garden." The library scenes were filmed at the Grade II listed Stoke Newington Library, north London. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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