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Iain Softley

イアン・ソフトリー　/　いあん・そふとりー

Film director from United Kingdom

October 30, 1956 (age 69)　・　Chiswick, United Kingdom

film director
screenwriter
television director

My Take

What I admire most about Iain Softley is his refusal to be pinned to a single register. He swung from the youthful ache of Backbeat to the neon mischief of Hackers to the quiet metaphysics of K-PAX, and made each feel sincere rather than calculated. He is not a flashy auteur stamping every frame with his signature; he is the rarer kind of craftsman who serves the material, translating dense source novels into clean emotional cinema. That Cambridge-trained discipline could read as cold, yet his films are unexpectedly warm. I value directors who quietly last, and Softley has done exactly that.

Overview

Iain Declan Softley (born 30 November 1956) is an English film director, producer, and screenwriter. His films include Backbeat, Hackers, The Wings of the Dove, K-PAX, The Skeleton Key, Inkheart and the BBC adaptation of Sadie Jones's novel The Outcast.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Iain Softley
Name (Japanese): イアン・ソフトリー
Reading: いあん・そふとりー
Born: October 30, 1956 (age 69)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Scorpio / Monkey
Origin: Chiswick, United Kingdom
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: film director / screenwriter / television director / theatre director / film producer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Queens' College

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%95%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC

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