Confetti (2006 film)
Confetti is a 2006 British mockumentary romantic comedy film released onMay 2006. It was conceived and directed by Debbie Isitt and stars many acclaimed British comedians, including Jessica Stevenson, Jimmy Carr, Martin Freeman, Mark Heap, Julia Davis, Robert Webb, and Olivia Colman. It follows a bridal magazine competition for the most original wedding, the ultimate prize being a house, and the three couples who are chosen to compete. The film follows the contestants in a flyonthewall documentary style, akin to The Office. The script is entirely improvised.
The film follows their planning, and the various crises that each couple faces over the threemonth planning period. As well as learning to sing and dance, Sam and Matt must contend with Sams dominating mother Alison Steadman and attentionseeking sister Sarah Hadland, who appear intent on hijacking the proceedings and constantly browbeat and undermine the shy and easily cowed Sam such as preventing her from inviting her beloved but estranged father, much to Matts growing irritation. The couple must also deal with Matts oldest friend and best man Snoopy Marc Wootton, a musician who nurses a bitter resentment towards Sam for coming between him and Matt that he expresses in notsosubtle lyrics that he intends to sing at the wedding. Despite the constant support and encouragement the couple receive from Archie and Gregory, the gradual tension eventually builds to a bitter argument between Matt and Sams mother and sister which sees him kicked out of the house where he is staying with them this prompts Sam, however, to finally stand up for herself and put her mother and sister in place.Isabelle and Josef, meanwhile, are intensely determined to win, owing to unexplained financial difficulties. Suspicious and competitive, they become increasingly paranoid that the competition is being fixed against them in favour of Matt and Sam, eventually resorting to the extreme measure of having Isabelles nose and her extremely large nostrils altered by plastic surgery with the result being that the nose she ends up with is much longer than her original one. In the process, however, they find themselves combatting their own anxieties Josef, in particular, finds himself confronting his jealousy over Isabelles friendship with their tennis coach, Jesus, and insecurity over his largely finished tennis career and that he will not be able to be a worthy husband to Isabelle. Joanna and Michael, however, find their plans challenged at every turn by Vivienne, who has no intention of putting a n
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