Michael Winterbottom
Michael Winterbottom
Michael Winterbottomis an English filmmaker. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films — Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People — have been nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Winterbottom often works with the same actors; many faces can be seen in several of his films, including Shirley Henderson, Paul Popplewell, John Simm, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Raymond Waring and Kieran O'Brien...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth29 March 1961
The starting point was to tell (about) these three people, not to tell the general political situation. All the images you see - it's hard to know whether it's deliberate or not, they sort of dehumanize the people there, you don't have any sense of what they're like.