i really hate my job - the blog

Fresh in from Steve Clare the Glaswegian editor of PROST AMERIKA! - the German Language Arts and Culture Guide to events in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

Our coverage of the recent Seattle International Film Festival was both extensive and widely praised. 

The PROSKARS are PROST AMERIKA!’s recognition of excellence at SIFF and are based on reviews of over 55 films.

I am therefore very happy to inform you that Shirley Henderson has been nominated for a PROSKAR in the Category of Best Actress at the Seattle International Film Festival.

Visit the web-site the film’s official web-site to find out more about the director, the cast, read festival reviews and more: www.ireallyhatemyjobthemovie.com

I Really Hate My Job (6/8), a breezy little comedy that takes place in one evening within the confines of one restaurant. It is ensemble comedy with great performances all around by Shirley Henderson, Alexandra Maria Lara, Neve Campbell, Anna Maxwell Martin, and Oana Pellea. There is chaos in the kitchen as Alice (Henderson) has to fill in for the chef, and there is chaos out on the floor as Abi (Campbell) is having a 30th birthday meltdown. In the meantime, there is a dinner reservation for a movie star, and the anticipation of this brush-with-greatness is putting them all on edge. The writing is sharp, fast, and funny, and Henderson and Oana Pellea (as the dish washer) are particularly hilarious in their claustrophobic kitchen interplay.

To read the whole review on Moviepie Musings, click here

Author: eperdos from Romania

An excellent theatrical movie about 5 girls working in a restaurant but in fact looking for the meaning of their lives. Great acting on all 5 actresses, 2 of them being Romanian. Composition roles that request creativity and power: Shirley Henderson is a terrific almost hysterical woman and I would give her the Oscar for her performance. Oana Pellea is a delusional older woman, speaking just in philosophical words and behaving like nothing around her is happening; until frustration gets her too! I would like to see this script on stage eventually, and with same casting would be a stunning show. I saw the movie (an absolute world premiere) at TIFF (Transilvania International Film Festival) in Cluj, Romania, and I enjoyed every second of it.

Oliver Parker, the director of I Really Hate My Job is flying to Seattle for the Friday 15th evening screening of the film at the Seattle International Film Festival. He will be taking questions from the press and audience at the Q&A session after the film.

June 19th at 3.45 is the screening at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

Clearly it’s not just the waitresses in the Stella Bar who have to put up with awful jobs.

I Really Hate My Job has been invited to the Shanghai International Film Festival which runs from 16 - 24 June.

Photos from the screenings of I Really Hate My Job at the Transilvania International Film Festival are now posted on the offical web-site.

To see the whole gallery, click here

The screenings of the film at both the Transilvania and Seattle Film Festivals were reported in Variety:

“MUNICH — Oliver Parker’s “I Really Hate My Job” is to have its world preem in Transilvania.

Starring Romanian-born Alexandra Maria Lara (”Control,” “Downfall”), Neve Campbell (”Scream”) and Shirley Henderson (”Harry Potter”), Oliver Parker’s laffer about five waitresses stuck in a second-rate London restaurant with delusions of grandeur is to preem on June 4 at the 6th Transilvania Intl. Film Festival in Romania.”

To read the whole article click here.

Producer Andrew Higgie has been reporting back from the Transilvania International Film Festival and tells us that the film is getting fantastic reviews all round.

He is there with director Oliver Parker, writer Jennifer Higgie and actresses Oana Pellea and Alexandra Maria Lara who will be amongst the 2000 people attending an open air screening of the film tonight in Sibiu.  This will be a fantastic experience - I Really Hate My Job on the big screen - underneath the stars!