Submarine
Writer/director Richard Ayoade adapts author Joe Dunthorne's acerbic coming-of-age novel to the big screen with this comedy centered on the efforts of precocious Welsh 15-year-old Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) to lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to prevent his mother (Sally Hawkins) from having an affair with a smooth-talking spiritual guru (Paddy Considine) after his morose father (Noah Taylor) loses the will to fight for his marriage.
Director: Richard Ayoade
Starring: Craig Roberts, Noah Taylor, Sally Hawkins,Paddy Considine, Yasmin Paige
Wonderfully funny and subversively affecting.
Writer-director Richard Ayoade has the knack. A fresh and inventive cinematic voice, he's taken a subject that's been beaten half to death and brought it miraculously to life in his smart and funny debut feature, Submarine.
Ayoade, the British comic making a remarkable feature debut with his adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's 2008 novel, blends mirth and malice with deadpan brilliance.
Ayoade is well known to British viewers for his role as a coddled nerd in the sitcom "The IT Crowd," so it's fair to expect laughs from his directorial debut feature. But much depends on your mind-set; U.S. audiences could have trouble with the movie's less-than-sunny worldview.
Submarine has its own specific miseries and darkly funny vibe. It makes quirkiness briefly seem like a good thing again.
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
BAFTA Awards (2012)
Best Actor (Yr Actor Gorau)
BAFTA Awards, Wales (2012)
Best Screenplay
British Independent Film Awards (2011)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Chlotrudis Awards (2012)
Best British Film
Empire Awards, UK (2012)