L’Enfant d’Beans
A feature-length film made in Brighton, UK
Screenings
April 26th – PREMIERE – Marlborough Theatre, Brighton – 7.30pm
May 31st – The Riverside, Sheffield
June 28th – Black Box Studio at Exeter Phoenix Digital – 7pm
July 26th – The Exhibit, Balham, London
Introduction
L’Enfant d’Beans is a film set on an aeroplane. But don’t make any assumptions that this is a big-budget, high-octane, all-you-can-eat buffet of explosions, zingers and male punching, like Con Air or Passenger 57.
Once described as an “arthouse” film by someone who hadn’t seen it, L’Enfant d’Beans is an hour following a group of passengers and crew on board an aircraft. It is a meditation on futility, obsession and vengeance, yet simultaneously involves people being hit with hot dog sausages and bags of Mini Kievs. It asks questions of societal norms, manners and the purgatorial nature of life, yet also involves an angry Texan oil baron who really needs the toilet, and a weird old man who gurns at everyone. It’s somewhere between a black comedy, a Beckett-esque existentialist nightmare, and a children’s cartoon.
Filmed in one nine-hour day on a budget of about fifty quid, most scenes were performed in one take by the cast of amateur actors. The music is provided by friends of the director, the lighting and camerawork carried out by the cast. L’Enfant d’Beans is the result of meticulous planning, the much-appreciated help of many hands, and a bloody-minded determination to make a thoroughly ridiculous film that should hopefully confuse every into laughing without them really knowing why.