The Root Cause
May 19, 2021
3 minutes
IB
WHAT DID YOU accomplish during lockdown? Learn conversational Spanish? Reorganise the shed? Just change out of pyjamas before tea-time? Congratulations – but your achievement pales beside that of Ben Wheatley, who wrote and filmed a movie.
The director began writing the script for in the second week of the first lockdown, then shot it during the UK’s brief summer respite from Covid-19, across 15 days in August. “It was partially processing what was happening and trying to stay calm,” Wheatley tells
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