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.

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.

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!

With the Transylvanian International Film Festival just around the corner - I Really Hate My Job’s screening during the festival features in the Hollywood Reporter.  The film festival, renowned for its innovation and style, runs from the 1st - 10th June and two of the film’s stars; Oana Pellea and Alexandra Maria Lara, will show their support for the film by attending.

Click here to read the whole article.

The film was shown for a second time today at the Cannes Film Festival - I wonder how it went? Maybe Alexandra managed to pop by to see it again…

Our very own Alexandra Maria Lara (Suzie) was at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday promoting Anton Corbijn’s Control which opened Directors Fortnight and is about the short life of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis.

The Hollywood Reporter describes Alexandra’s character “as a tasty Belgian bird named Annik who poses as a journalist but gets more than just a few quotes”. Sounds like a fun role!

Click here to read full review of Control.

After watching this film I feel so lucky that I’ve never worked in a restaraunt - it looks awful…I’ve heard bad stories from so many of my friends about rude customers, stressful nights and annoying co-workers but I could see from this how bad it actually gets…driving even one waitress to take all her clothes off (poor Abi!) 

Not that the jobs I’ve had have been great…

Director Oliver Parker, writer Jennifer Higgie, producers Dominic Saville and Andrew Higgie plus some of the cast will be flying over to see the film being shown at the Transilvania Film Festival.