Christine Jeffs

Nascimento : 1963-01-29, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Christine Jeffs (born 1963) is a New Zealand born film director known for directing the British motion picture Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig, and the American independent film Sunshine Cleaning (2009), starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt. Jeffs is also the director and screenwriter of the New Zealand film Rain (2001). Jeffs lives in Auckland with her partner John Toon, cinematographer of Sunshine Cleaning and her other films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christine Jeffs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmes

Trabalho Sujo
Director
Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) fez sucesso na juventude, quando era líder de torcida. Atualmente ela trabalha como diarista e busca por uma vida melhor para ela e seu filho, Oscar (Jason Spevack). Norah (Emily Blunt), a irmã mais nova de Rose, ainda mora com o pai Joe (Alan Arkin). Quando Rose toma conhecimento da alta quantia que pode ganhar com a limpeza de cenas de crimes e a remoção de lixo tóxico, ela e Norah decidem se unir para abrir sua própria empresa, a Sunshine Cleaning. Aos poucos elas percebem que o novo empreendimento também as ajudará a dar um novo rumo em suas vidas.
Sylvia - Paixão Além de Palavras
Director
A história de Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow), uma das mais famosas novelistas da literatura norte-americana. Nascida em Boston durante a Grande Depressão, Sylvia ainda jovem tentou cometer suicídio, na casa de sua mãe. Ela viaja à Inglaterra para estudar em Cambridge e lá conhece o jovem poeta Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig), por quem se apaixona e vive um longo romance.
Chuva de Verão
Writer
Janey is on vacation with her brother, Jim, mother, Kate, and father Ed, at their beach house on the Mahurangi Peninsual in New Zealand. Ed and Kate, who are on the verge of divorce, sit around in the back yard all day drinking whiskey and Janey and Jim are left to their own devices. Cady, a local boaty who is having an affair with Kate, catches Janey's pubescent eye. In response to his wife's drinking problem and recurring infidelity, Ed turns to alcohol, ignoring his children almost as much as his wife, which eventually leads to a character's fate.
Chuva de Verão
Director
Janey is on vacation with her brother, Jim, mother, Kate, and father Ed, at their beach house on the Mahurangi Peninsual in New Zealand. Ed and Kate, who are on the verge of divorce, sit around in the back yard all day drinking whiskey and Janey and Jim are left to their own devices. Cady, a local boaty who is having an affair with Kate, catches Janey's pubescent eye. In response to his wife's drinking problem and recurring infidelity, Ed turns to alcohol, ignoring his children almost as much as his wife, which eventually leads to a character's fate.
Stroke
Editor
Dorothy (Fiona Samuel), a lone swimmer, luxuriates in tranquil bliss at a deserted pool — only to have her solitude rudely interrupted by a squad of swimmers. A wordless, strikingly choreographed conflict ensues as Dorothy attempts to assert herself against the dehumanised aggression of the swimmers.
Stroke
Writer
Dorothy (Fiona Samuel), a lone swimmer, luxuriates in tranquil bliss at a deserted pool — only to have her solitude rudely interrupted by a squad of swimmers. A wordless, strikingly choreographed conflict ensues as Dorothy attempts to assert herself against the dehumanised aggression of the swimmers.
Stroke
Director
Dorothy (Fiona Samuel), a lone swimmer, luxuriates in tranquil bliss at a deserted pool — only to have her solitude rudely interrupted by a squad of swimmers. A wordless, strikingly choreographed conflict ensues as Dorothy attempts to assert herself against the dehumanised aggression of the swimmers.
A Mistake
Director
In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues begin to close ranks, and even her partner who is a nurse at the hospital turns her back on her.