The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

The documentary explores the life and work of Jeremy Thomas, film producer of such illustrious films as 'The Last Emperor' by Bernardo Bertolucci. It features interventions by Tilda Swinton, Debra Winger and Jeremy Thomas himself. Mark Cousins directs and signs the script for the film.

"It has to be said this is hardcore, movie-mad immersion and prose-poem free-associating, targeted at the cinema faithful and very much a festival event. And for those who are not used to Cousins's style and inimitable vocal presence, and perhaps hoping for more talk from the man in the title, it could be a bit too much to take. Anyone coming to this film hoping for some nuts-and-bolts insight into what a producer actually does, and the ever-present worries about money, will be disappointed. This film floats free from that sort of banal consideration. But as always, I find myself considering that in a world where everyone?s a cynic and an ironist, Cousins's unaffected rapture is unique and refreshing. And there is an odd-couple comedy here, with Cousins as the unstoppably garrulous super-fan and Thomas as the reticent English gentleman, almost like a charismatic Cambridge don on the long vacation, who has picked up a voluble hitchhiker", says the journalist Peter Bradshaw for the American media The Guardian.