Carine Adler Explained

Honorific Prefix:	The Right Honourable
The Lady Reid of Cardowan
Birth Place:	Brazil
Occupation:	Film director
Yearsactive:	1994present
Known For:	A female perspective on sexuality
Notable Works:	Under the Skin

Carine Adler, Baroness Reid of Cardowan (born 1948) is a Brazilian screenwriter and film director.

Career

Adler's break came when the British Film Institute asked her to develop her short film Touch and Go into a full-length feature.^[1] The result was Under the Skin, the screenplay for which took her two years to write.^[2] According to Richard Armstrong in The Rough Guide to Film, "What distinguishes her small oeuvre is the fusion of her protagonists' desire and their sense of inferiority."^[3]

Personal life

Adler is the second wife of former British government minister Dr John Reid, Baron Reid, whom she married in 2002.^[4] She has a son, Hal, from a previous marriage, and two stepsons with Reid.

Filmography

Feature films

• Under the Skin - 1997, writer/director. Received the Michael Powell Award for Best British feature film at the 1997 Edinburgh International Film Festival

Shorts

• Contrechamps - 1979, writer/director
• Pianists - 1980, writer/director
• Jamie - 1982, writer/director. A short film made at the National Film and Television School
• Touch and Go - 1993, writer/director
• Edward's Flying Boat (doc) - 1995, writer/director
• Fever - 1995, writer/director

External links

• • Web site: Carine Adler . BFI Screenonline .
• Web site: Carine Adler . BritFilms . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061110143110/http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/directors/?id=D5FD9B440ed1f280C9RhK18DEEAD . 2006-11-10 .

Notes and References

1. Fowler . Claire . Under the Skin, Interview with Carine Adler . Filmwaves . 29 . 2015-05-13 .
2. David Stratton interviews Carine Adler . 25 March 1998 . The Movie Show . Television production . 13 May 2015 . 0:26 minutes in . Sydney, Australia . Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) . The screenplay took about two years to write, I wrote about 14 drafts..
3. Book: Armstrong . Richard . Charity . Tom . Hughes . Lloyd . Winter . Jessica . 2007 . The Rough Guide to Film . Rough Guides . London . 1 . 978-1-84353-408-2 . registration .
4. News: Wedding bells beckon for NI secretary . 2002-02-05 . .