Rowan Joffe on Brighton Rock

Rowan Joffe's adaptation of Brighton Rock transports the Boulting brothers classic noir to the mid-'60s, a suitably punchy setting where gang violence plays out against a backdrop of mods and rockers. Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough step into the worn shoes of Pinkie and Rose, and the pair talked us through a seaside shoot that - surprisingly - also played out with its own cast of real-life mods and rockers. Director Joffe, meanwhile, explained the pressures of re-adaptating a Graham Greene classic - cinema's equivalent of a don't-look-down experience. http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1181