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- The film is a seventeenth-century home invasion narrative centred around Fanny Lye (Maxine Peake), the miserable wife of a puritanical abuser (Charles Dance, exquisite), who eventually liberates herself from multiple forms of male oppression.
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Jan 15, 2021 · The Delivered. Fanny lives in an English farmhouse in 1657 when militant Puritans rule. Two fugitives with radical new ideas arrive. When the sheriff arrives, things deteriorate badly prompting Fanny to make drastic decisions about her life.
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- Drama, History, Thriller
- Thomas Clay
- 2021-01-15
Set on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657, The Delivered tells the story of Fanny Lye, a woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a new world of possibility --...
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- Maxine Peake
- Thomas Clay
- Horror, Drama
Living a life of Puritan stricture with husband John and young son Arthur, Fanny Lye's world is shaken to its core by the unexpected arrival of two strangers in need, a young couple closely pursued by a ruthless sheriff and his deputy.
THE DELIVERED (also known as Fanny Lye Deliver'd) is set on an isolated English farm in 1657, where Fanny (Maxine Peake) lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John (Charles Dance) and their young son.
- Thomas Clay
- Stefan Pape
- Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox
Jun 25, 2020 · Features, Interviews. “Fanny is inspired by real life people who fought for their voices to be heard” – Director Thomas Clay talkes Fanny Lye Deliver’d. Where did the idea come from? When I was young, I read a book called The World Upside Down by Christopher Hill that transforms British History.
Written and directed by Thomas Clay, "The Delivered" (original name: "Fanny Lye Deliver'd") contained a literary flavour with a generous dose of suspense. The tale harkened back to the mid-1600s (1657, to be precise) when puritanical Christianity set a tone that today will feel antiquated and bizarre.
Jun 24, 2020 · Thomas Clay’s Fanny Lye Deliver’d, set a decade later, sees this fervour descend on a Shropshire farm in a fit of sex and violence. It’s a film as incendiary and chaotic as the period that...
