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Director's Statement
When CELDA 211 fell into my hands, I read it in one go and knew immediately that I wanted to make a movie about it. The novel’s starting point was forceful and convincing, set in a powerful, recognizable and human universe; and the story was built on a suffocating tension and included some remarkable twists and turns. As a film, it represented a major narrative challenge and left me with little choice to do anything other than strip away all artifice and place the camera directly at the service of the characters. It was thus necessary to find a failsafe cast. Now that the film’s finished, it’s hard for me to imagine more reliable, suitable actors than the ones we went with.