THINK OF ENGLAND

Director: Richard Hawkins

Producers: Poppy O'Hagan & Nick O'Hagan

With Jack Bandeira, Natalie Quarry, John McCrea, Ronni Ancona, Ben Bela Böhm, Ollie Maddigan and Oscar Hoppe.  

Currently in post-production

Think of England is a story about the lines society draws in the sand that define the accepted moral standards of the time: who draws them, who polices them, who redraws them, and who gets to judge what happens when they’re crossed.

It is also a story about war. For nothing challenges the inherent hypocrisy of these lines quite like a full-on war; when on the one hand, millions are suddenly implored to completely abandon so many of the values they have been brought up to live by, and become instead the very worst versions of themselves - genuine monsters of war - while on the other, still the largely prejudiced values of a Victorian legacy must be maintained at all costs back home.

But most of all, Think of England is a story about film itself. For nothing has charted the evolution of these lines quite like the history of the motion picture: from a blurred Hedy Lamarr walking naked through the forest, Clark Gable suddenly not giving a damn, to Burt Lancaster properly kissing Deborah Kerr as a foaming surf breaks over the pair of them; all in their time taboo-shattering.