Saura Lightfoot Leon stars in Luna Carmoon’s impressive debut film as the daughter of a hoarder. Here’s our Hoard review.
On the set of her debut feature Luna Carmoon sprayed a scent, appropriately titled Secretions Magnifique, that was designed to emulate the smells of sperm, blood, sweat, tears to immerse her actors more in the mood of the film. That might sound gross, but that’s kind of the point. Hoard is unapologetically disgusting, but a deeply empathetic film about sexuality, loneliness and grief.
Hoard opens with a mother-daughter duo, Cynthia (Hayley Squires) and Maria (Lily-Beau Leach) digging through bins to find treasures that they take back to their overflowing flat. Cynthia is hoarder, emotionally attached to every single piece of clutter in her house. She nearly breaks down when she thinks Maria didn’t bring back the peels of her orange and tinfoil back from school. Maria...
On the set of her debut feature Luna Carmoon sprayed a scent, appropriately titled Secretions Magnifique, that was designed to emulate the smells of sperm, blood, sweat, tears to immerse her actors more in the mood of the film. That might sound gross, but that’s kind of the point. Hoard is unapologetically disgusting, but a deeply empathetic film about sexuality, loneliness and grief.
Hoard opens with a mother-daughter duo, Cynthia (Hayley Squires) and Maria (Lily-Beau Leach) digging through bins to find treasures that they take back to their overflowing flat. Cynthia is hoarder, emotionally attached to every single piece of clutter in her house. She nearly breaks down when she thinks Maria didn’t bring back the peels of her orange and tinfoil back from school. Maria...
- 5/17/2024
- by Maria Lattila
- Film Stories
Perhaps it comes as no surprise that a film named Hoard is, well, disgusting. Everyday trash is one young woman’s treasure, and muck and grime communicate the extremities of humanity in Luna Carmoon’s prickly drama, which draws inspiration from the director’s own life. This is an uncompromising film that’s unafraid to wade in discomfort, for better or for worse.
In its bisected story, Hoard first introduces the young Maria (initially played by Lily-Beau Leach), whose close loving relationship with her mother (Hayley Squires) is laid bare in their “catalogue of love”. In the evenings, they rummage round local bins, hoping to find little treasures to adorn their home: a hoarder’s paradise where stuffed bin bags cover the floors, tin cans dangle from ceilings and unopened books are stacked immeasurably high. Squires is captivating as a hardened mother with so much love to give that it lines every surface,...
In its bisected story, Hoard first introduces the young Maria (initially played by Lily-Beau Leach), whose close loving relationship with her mother (Hayley Squires) is laid bare in their “catalogue of love”. In the evenings, they rummage round local bins, hoping to find little treasures to adorn their home: a hoarder’s paradise where stuffed bin bags cover the floors, tin cans dangle from ceilings and unopened books are stacked immeasurably high. Squires is captivating as a hardened mother with so much love to give that it lines every surface,...
- 5/13/2024
- by Iana Murray
- Empire - Movies
Sunrise Films has acquired Luna Carmoon’s “Hoard” for the U.S. and Canada.
The film debuted at Venice in 2023, where it won three prizes. It went on to an extended festival run including at the BFI London Film Festival, Athens, Mumbai and Goteborg.
Sunrise Films is a new production and internationally focused distribution company that has been launched by Vertigo Releasing CEO Rupert Preston and chair Nigel Williams.
The “Hoard” cast includes Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Lily-Beau Leach and Deba Hekmat alongside Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires and Samantha Spiro. The film follows a young girl (Leach) living in London in 1984 as she navigates her mother’s obsessive hoarding. Flashing forward to the girl’s teenage years, she (Lightfoot-Leon) must confront the madness and trauma of her late mother when a stranger (Quinn) arrives on her doorstep.
“Hoard” is produced by Delaval Film, Erebus Pictures and Anti-Worlds with financing from the BFI.
The film debuted at Venice in 2023, where it won three prizes. It went on to an extended festival run including at the BFI London Film Festival, Athens, Mumbai and Goteborg.
Sunrise Films is a new production and internationally focused distribution company that has been launched by Vertigo Releasing CEO Rupert Preston and chair Nigel Williams.
The “Hoard” cast includes Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Lily-Beau Leach and Deba Hekmat alongside Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires and Samantha Spiro. The film follows a young girl (Leach) living in London in 1984 as she navigates her mother’s obsessive hoarding. Flashing forward to the girl’s teenage years, she (Lightfoot-Leon) must confront the madness and trauma of her late mother when a stranger (Quinn) arrives on her doorstep.
“Hoard” is produced by Delaval Film, Erebus Pictures and Anti-Worlds with financing from the BFI.
- 4/29/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Vertigo Releasing has debuted a new trailer for Hoard.
1984, London: 7-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother. An older stranger, Michael, then enters their home, opening the door to past trauma, magic and madness…
Written and directed by Luna Carmoon, the movie stars Saura Lightfoot Leon, Hayley Squires, Joseph Quinn, Lily-Beau Leach and Samantha Spiro.
Also in trailers – “Are those dogs fresh?” Trailer drops for ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’
The movie will open in cinemas across the UK & Ireland on Friday 17th May 2024.
The post “I can hear her again…” Trailer drops for ‘Hoard’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
1984, London: 7-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother. An older stranger, Michael, then enters their home, opening the door to past trauma, magic and madness…
Written and directed by Luna Carmoon, the movie stars Saura Lightfoot Leon, Hayley Squires, Joseph Quinn, Lily-Beau Leach and Samantha Spiro.
Also in trailers – “Are those dogs fresh?” Trailer drops for ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’
The movie will open in cinemas across the UK & Ireland on Friday 17th May 2024.
The post “I can hear her again…” Trailer drops for ‘Hoard’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 3/29/2024
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"You're a funny little biscuit." Vertigo Releasing has debuted the full official UK trailer for Hoard, an indie film creation from newcomer writer / director Luna Carmoon, making her feature directorial debut. This premiered in the Critics Week sidebar at the 2023 Venice Film Festival last year, with stops at the Athens and London Film Festivals. Not to be confused with the 2018 horror movie The Hoard, or any other horror films. In a fearlessly strange and intense psychological drama a troubled teenager forms an obsessive bond with a mysterious young man at her foster home. Starring Saura Lightfoot Leon as Maria, with Hayley Squires, Joseph Quinn, Lily-Beau Leach, and Samantha Spiro. It's hard to describe this very strange film, which is exceptionally odd and icky at times. Most reviews at festivals last year were positive, saying: "this is unfiltered filmmaking that indulges every storytelling whim, however uncomfortable it might turn out to be.
- 3/28/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stars: Saura Lightfoot Leon, Lily-Beau Leach, Hayley Squires, Samantha Spiro, Joseph Quinn | Written and Directed by Luna Carmoon
In 1980s England, Maria (Lily-Beau Leach) lives with her mother Cynthia (Hayley Squires), who is an obsessive hoarder. Struggling at school, Maria seeks solace in the unique yet dysfunctional lifestyle that the pair share together. In the 1990s, 18-year-old Maria (Saura Lightfoot Leon) struggles to come to terms with her past when she meets Michael (Joseph Quinn).
Arguably, one of the best sub-genres in film history is the British working-class flick. Never shying away from what needs to be said, these movies get gritty with the facets of life that most of us — including the wider media — would rather turn a blind eye to. Quiet and unassuming, the best of the bunch soar into view to command a voice that becomes timeless, but unfortunately, Luna Carmoon’s debut Hoard is not a...
In 1980s England, Maria (Lily-Beau Leach) lives with her mother Cynthia (Hayley Squires), who is an obsessive hoarder. Struggling at school, Maria seeks solace in the unique yet dysfunctional lifestyle that the pair share together. In the 1990s, 18-year-old Maria (Saura Lightfoot Leon) struggles to come to terms with her past when she meets Michael (Joseph Quinn).
Arguably, one of the best sub-genres in film history is the British working-class flick. Never shying away from what needs to be said, these movies get gritty with the facets of life that most of us — including the wider media — would rather turn a blind eye to. Quiet and unassuming, the best of the bunch soar into view to command a voice that becomes timeless, but unfortunately, Luna Carmoon’s debut Hoard is not a...
- 3/12/2024
- by Jasmine Valentine
- Nerdly
Film also sells to Greece, Poland among others.
Alpha Violet has secured multiple European sales on Luna Carmoon’s debut feature Hoard, which won multiple awards in Critics’ Week at Venice Film Festival last month.
The film has sold to the UK (Vertigo Releasing), Greece and Cyprus (Cinobo), Poland (New Horizon Association) and the Baltic states (HBO Europe and Jsc Europos Kinas).
Hoard received the most innovative film, audience award and a jury special mention for lead actress Saura Lightfoot Leon from the Critics’ Week jury, plus the independent Premio Autrici prize for best direction and screenplay for Carmoon.
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Alpha Violet has secured multiple European sales on Luna Carmoon’s debut feature Hoard, which won multiple awards in Critics’ Week at Venice Film Festival last month.
The film has sold to the UK (Vertigo Releasing), Greece and Cyprus (Cinobo), Poland (New Horizon Association) and the Baltic states (HBO Europe and Jsc Europos Kinas).
Hoard received the most innovative film, audience award and a jury special mention for lead actress Saura Lightfoot Leon from the Critics’ Week jury, plus the independent Premio Autrici prize for best direction and screenplay for Carmoon.
It...
- 10/4/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
In 1996, the British band Suede – or The London Suede as they’re known in the United States, thanks to a trademark lawsuit – released their third album, “Coming Up”, which opened with the song “Trash”. A catchy, breezy anthem for the downtrodden trying to find love and excitement in monotonous or outright dirty environments, “Trash” posits the potential for rebellion and individuality in stale English suburbia, where bonds of solidarity can form among people drawn to each other due to shared outsider status: “But we’re trash, you and me/ We’re the litter on the breeze/ We’re the lovers on the street.”
With its motif concerning garbage on the street, “Trash” could have been an all-too obvious needle drop in “Hoard”, a (mostly) mid-90s period piece set in the exact sort of humdrum British milieu evoked by Suede, with literal refuse playing a major part in the strange...
With its motif concerning garbage on the street, “Trash” could have been an all-too obvious needle drop in “Hoard”, a (mostly) mid-90s period piece set in the exact sort of humdrum British milieu evoked by Suede, with literal refuse playing a major part in the strange...
- 9/2/2023
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- Indiewire
A first clip has been unveiled from Luna Carmoon’s feature debut “Hoard,” which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
In the film, set in 1984 London, 7-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and the film joins Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother. An older stranger, Michael, then enters their home, opening the door to past trauma, magic and madness.
“‘Hoard’ came from a place of venom; spite really is the great transformer. It was a story I was writing for just me, the world of ‘Hoard’ and its characters saved me truly,” Carmoon told Variety. “I never intended it to be seen … I was going to leave it at the bottom of my bed wrapped in string for the Newshopper and family to find to their shock and horror,...
In the film, set in 1984 London, 7-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and the film joins Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother. An older stranger, Michael, then enters their home, opening the door to past trauma, magic and madness.
“‘Hoard’ came from a place of venom; spite really is the great transformer. It was a story I was writing for just me, the world of ‘Hoard’ and its characters saved me truly,” Carmoon told Variety. “I never intended it to be seen … I was going to leave it at the bottom of my bed wrapped in string for the Newshopper and family to find to their shock and horror,...
- 8/22/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Carmoon, producers Loran Dunn and Helen Simmons, and star Joseph Quinn all former Stars of Tomorrow.
Paris-based sales agent Alpha Violet has acquired worldwide sales rights to Hoard, the UK debut feature from Luna Carmoon, that will debut in Venice Critics’ Week this month.
Hoard is about a seven year-old girl and her mother in 1984 whose world suddenly falls apart. Ten years later, and the girl is living with her foster mother, when an older stranger enters their home bringing past trauma, magic and madness.
Saura Lightfoot Leon, Hayley Squires, Joseph Quinn, Lily-Beau Leach and Samantha Spiro star. It is...
Paris-based sales agent Alpha Violet has acquired worldwide sales rights to Hoard, the UK debut feature from Luna Carmoon, that will debut in Venice Critics’ Week this month.
Hoard is about a seven year-old girl and her mother in 1984 whose world suddenly falls apart. Ten years later, and the girl is living with her foster mother, when an older stranger enters their home bringing past trauma, magic and madness.
Saura Lightfoot Leon, Hayley Squires, Joseph Quinn, Lily-Beau Leach and Samantha Spiro star. It is...
- 7/27/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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