Interview: Actress Kelly Macdonald and Director Marc Turtletaub

Actress Kelly Macdonald and director Marc Turtletaub discuss their new indie film Puzzle

Puzzle director Marc Turtletaub with lead actress Kelly Macdonald. (photo by Alex Geranios)

A neglected housewife turns the tables on her dull life by enrolling in a jigsaw puzzle competition in the new film Puzzle, one of the breakout hits at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Director Marc Turtletaub and lead actress Kelly Macdonald (Trainspotting) are the first to admit that a movie about competitive puzzle building may not be at the top of everyone’s must-see list, and yet the duo have managed to make a compelling movie despite those odds.
 
The pair recently traveled to San Francisco to promote Puzzle and found that the Bay Area reception to their movie was just as rapturous as the one on the festival circuit. We recently sat down with them to talk about the movie, and the following is a transcription of that conversation.

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Film Review: “Brave”

featuring the voices of: Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Craig Ferguson, Kevin McKidd

written by: Mark Andrews, Steve Purcell, Brenda Chapman, Irene Mecchi

directed by: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell

MPAA: Rated PG for some scary action and rude humor

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