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Folie à deux: Madness Made of Two

Helen and John have seven children and a very comfortable lifestyle when they decide to get a mortgage to buy what might well be the oldest house in England. They want to convert the 72-room mansion in the center of York into a hotel, but when the financial crisis hits, their dream turns into their worst nightmare. Helen, a ‘love her, hate her, but you can’t ignore her’ character, fights the banks for a loan and her neighbours over rights to the courtyard. She's on her own, as John spends most of the time working in another part of the country. While her house gradually becomes unsellable, she keeps busy carting off the neighbours' garbage cans and trying in vain to get a "No Parking" sign put up. Shot over five years this film is an intimate portrayal of a large, Bohemian family with all the ups and downs of daily life, an intriguing glance into England’s history, its current obsessions.  It’s a nail-biting journey through the economic crash and life's biggest gamble.

Festivals

IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (2012)

Kim Hopkins

A graduate of the National Film & TV School, Kim has been making award-winning documentaries for nearly 15 years. She has TV directing/shooting credits for BBC, Channel 4, Discovery, National Geographic, Al Jazeera amongst others. Films range from social issues - violence against women around the world, modern slavery, healthcare in the developing world, biographical portraits to music documentaries, like “Man In the Sand”. She has also made several films about Native Americans.
Kim also teaches documentary film production, having been instrumental in setting up the documentary department at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television de San Antonio, Cuba. Kim works as a freelance documentary filmmaker. She is a director of Labor Of Love Films, a UK based production company.

Selected Filmography

This Land Is My Land (1993)
Man in the Sand (1999)
Wanted (2002)

Information

Director: Kim Hopkins
Cinematography: Kim Hopkins
Music: Lucy Ward
Sound: Kim Hopkins
Film Editing: Kim Hopkins, Margareta Szabo
Producers: Kim Hopkins, Margareta Szabo
Production: Labor Of Love Films
Hungary, United Kingdom, 2012, 101 min.