Did the producers originally plan to release the movie Backwoods in the theater?
About 30 minutes into this thriller, I began to consider the irony of the production. Co-written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Koldo Serra, the film stars British Actors Paddy Considine (HOT FUZZ) and Gary Oldman as pair of vacationers who take their wives Virginie Ledoyen (THE BEACH) and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (THE MACHINIST) to the Basque countryside to visit a rural cabin that Oldman inherited from his mother. After the group arrives the film settles into an uncomfortable character study of a pair of disintegrating relationships. The twist of the film comes near that 30 minute part—a point at which I was contemplating the humor in the fact that Ledoyen speaks French, Sánchez-Gijón speaks Spanish but the pair of them are communicating with each other in English. Considine also converses with the group in his native tongue but someone totally forgot to tell old Oldman—who is doing 75% of his dialogue in Spanish! OK, I’m only joking there because Oldman’s character has taken it upon
