Once a fashionable retreat for the upper classes, Frinton-on-Sea is now a relic of days gone by. With strict rules, manicured lawns and an unshakable sense of order. Marc Isaacs follows the eccentrically charming residents as they go about their daily lives, steeped in custom and tradition, painting a precise, bizarre portrait of British idiosyncrasy. With a keen sense of the absurd and a deep respect for the people portrayed, the film shows how nostalgia and identity intertwine - and what happens when a community tries to defend its idea of normality against a changing world. A hilariously melancholy study of belonging, life plans and the longing for an ideal world.
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Marc Isaacs
It is the supposedly insignificant people who interest Marc Isaacs, those on the fringes of society, on the margins. Not as exotic stereotypes or bizarre illustrations, but as seismographs of the present and its upheavals. In his films, Isaacs shows the casual everyday life of his protagonists. He lets them speak for themselves, and we observe how they deal - just as casually - with the great issues of the present: identity, hope, fear. Marc Isaacs is a radical humanist.
Isaacs came to documentary film in 1995 as an assistant producer at the BBC. He went on to work as an assistant to Pawel Pawlikowski. He made his first film, LIFT, in 2001.
