“Harry Potter” Director David Yates to Helm “Your Voice In My Head”
The director of the last four Harry Potter films, David Yates, will be heading up a new film, “Your Voice In My Head.” The film is based on the memoir by journalist Emma Forest about her struggles with bipolar disorder. The memoir focuses on Forest’s relationship with her psychiatrist, whom she began seeing after a suicide attempt. She saw this psychiatrist for years before discovering that her psychiatrist had himself died. The book deals with themes of recovery, and how her psychiatrist, her relationships and her journalist served to help her recover from her devastating early experiences with bipolar disorder. The film will be shooting in the summer of 2012. More information can be found in this article from Variety
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After four blockbuster films, it makes sense that David Yates would like to direct something on a smaller scale. While at first it might look like he would be a strange fit, he intends to direct the film using a form of magic realism, which suits both his own directorial experience as well as the subject matter. Magic realism, if anything, is a style perfectly suited to the experience of bipolar disorder. The film also examines some of the issues rarely discussed in other memoirs of bipolar disorder, such as relationship with a psychiatrist and the therapeutic effects of writing. It promises to be very interesting, and I look forward to seeing it.
An interview with Emma Forrest about her memoir is below:
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