Guilty Pleasures
Short film Completed 2010
Director
Julie Moggan
Doc Society helped with
Production
Runtime: 86 minutes
Every four seconds a Harlequin Mills & Boon romance novel is sold somewhere in the world. In India, the books give Shumita hope that her straying husband will return. In Japan, housewife Hiroko yearns to make fantasy reality with her handsome ballroom dancing teacher. And in Warrington, mum-of-three Shirley rifles through the books for ideas on how to keep her marriage spicy. But it’s not only the female readers who dream of a perfect romance.
New York model Stephen has been on over 200 Mills & Boon covers, but can’t find his true love. While romance novelist Gill Sanderson is in fact a pensioner called Roger, writing from a caravan in the North of England. Guilty Pleasures explores our universal struggle to reconcile inner fantasy with the tragicomic truths of real-life relationships. Five heroes, four continents, one dream of true love. Because real life begins where Mills & Boon ends…
Crew
Julie Moggan
Director
Guilty Pleasures is Julie Moggan’s first feature length documentary. Julie has a background in Social Anthropology and studied documentary at the National Film and Television School, where her graduation film Waiting for a Lift won the Becks Futures Student Prize. Since then Julie has directed and worked as a camera operator on a number of documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4.
A well-nourished documentary.
Screen International
