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DEMI'S MONDE
half-light
You set a story in a remote location - in Craig Rosenberg’s case, the far north of Scotland - and sometimes you have to pay the price. For Rosenberg, an Australian-born LA resident who recently wrote the heist story After the Sunset for New Line, the price he paid was the weather. And he wasn’t really working that far north, either: his new film, Half-Light, starring Demi Moore and Hans Matheson, was shot on the usually benign island of Ynys Llandwynn off the coast of Anglesey in North Wales, with some extra location work in Cornwall.
FILMED IN A SETTING OF “BLEAK BEAUTY”,
HALF-LIGHT IS AN EERIE, ATMOSPHERIC THRILLER STARRING DEMI MOORE. PREVIEW TALKS
TO WRITER/DIRECTOR CRAIG ROSENBERG
ABOUT DIFFICULT WEATHER, CO-OPERATIVE ACTORS AND CINEMATIC HOMAGES.
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Choosing his words carefully, Rosenberg - who made his directorial debut with Hotel de Love in 1996 - describes the shoot as “challenging”. “We shot from September through November in very difficult conditions,” he says. “We shot in Wales first and then we went to Cornwall, and both of those were very challenging. It was more the wind in Wales than the rain. But it’s given the film a very unique, dramatic, windswept look, which is great. I wouldn’t want to go through it again, but when you look back at the footage, you forget what was happening behind the camera and you just see what you captured.”
Half-Light is an eerie thriller tinged with the supernatural about a successful mystery novelist who rents a cottage in a remote Scottish fishing village after a family tragedy. But she is haunted as much by the past there as she was elsewhere, and the events that unfold begin to affect the community as a whole.
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