James McAvoy plays Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson, a scheming, manipulative, misanthropic man who spends his time indulging in drugs, alcohol, sexually abusive relationships, and “the games” – cruel plots and systematic bullying of his coworkers and friends. While working on the murder case of a Japanese student, he starts coming unhinged, slowly losing his grip on reality and suffering from a series of increasingly severe hallucinations as he desperately tries to hold his life together.
Filth won 10 major awards and 21 nominations ranging from Best Picture to Best Actor (James McAvoy) and Breakthrough British Filmmaker for director and screenwriter Jon Baird. Create a login to see additional exclusive content including the notorious “Agnus the Dog scene”. James McAvoy like you’ve never seen him before.
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CAST JAMES MCAVOY as Sergeant Bruce Robertson JAMIE BELL as Lennox EDDIE MARSAN as Bladesey IMOGEN POOTS as Amanda Drummond JIM BROADBENT as Dr. Rossi JOANNE FROGGATT as Mary
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PRODUCERS & CREW KEN MARSHALL – Producer TRUDIE STYLER – Producer CELINE RATTRAY – Producer STEPHEN MAO – Producer JON BAIRD – Director and Screenwriter IRVINE WELSH – Novel CLINT MANSELL – Music |
- In Irvine Welsh’s Filth director Jon Baird cites Stanley Kubrick as a major influence, and there are references to Kubrick’s films, both subtle and direct, throughout Filth—the colors are always unnatural and frequently surreal. Nearly every frame of Filth has been manipulated in some odd way, whether through contrast, brightness, color saturation or, occasionally desaturation.
- James McAvoy has the ability to vomit at will. The scene where Bruce is sick was real vomit.
- The closing cartoon credits include a mountain range which has been painted to look like a profile of James McAvoy’s face.
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INTERVIEWS AND EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS
London Premiere Red Carpet Interviews: See Eddie Marsan, James Mcavoy, Irvine Welsh, Imogen Poots and director Jon Baird talk about Filth on the red carpet before the premiere in London.
James McAvoy Featurette: In this clip James McAvoy gives a directors style narrative of the character he plays in Filth giving deep insight into the moral turpitude originating from the mind of Irvine Welsh’s creation.
Filth Photo Montage: A collection of images from the production set, Filth premieres and awards ceremonies set to Clint Mansell’s cover of “Creep” by Radiohead feat. Coco Sumner
Capital Breakfast Interview: Live interview with Dave and Kat on Capital Breakfast with James McAvoy on Filth and auditions for Dizzee Rascal The Musical.
Agnus the Dog: The infamous deleted dog scene. Log in required to view +18 only.
PRODUCTION IMAGES
Irvine Welsh’s character Bruce Robertson in Filth has been compared to a descendant of Alex from “A Clockwork Orange,” and director Jon Baird filmed him as such, with distorting, wide-angle shots. A coke-crazed, booze-soaked sex fiend and sadomasochist obsessed with erotic asphyxiation, he is a ragingly homophobic, misogynistic bully, given to spewing torrents of profane abuse, sometimes accompanied by vomit who to cap it off is clinically bipolar.
(The New York Times)
Photographs from the press kit for Filth and demonstrate director Jon S. Baird’s use of the editing room and color. Both James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent and Jon Baird draw on the apocalyptical works of Stanley Kubrick from A Clockwork Orange (Aubrey Morris’ Mr Deltoid) to 2001 A Space Odyssey.
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE FILMING OF FILTH
Exclusive production shots from the filmset of Filth including a cameo by writer Irvine Welsh in Edinburgh, Scotland. Filth was filmed on locations in:
Trollhättan, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Municipal Buildings, Stirling, Scotland, UK
Airport, Ostend, Flanders, Belgium
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Hamburg, Germany
Belgium
Karbon, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
