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Fri 07 Jul 2008Pictures from Roeg's gallery
After a decade in the doldrums, the veteran British film director is back with an adaptation of Fay Weldon's acidic novel, 'Puffball', writes Donald Clarke
IT IS THE SPRING of 2006 and I am standing outside a warehouse in the heart of Monaghan. Burly men wearing utility belts carry planks of wood about the place. Miranda Richardson, the reliably flinty English actor, emerges from a caravan to frolic with a big dog. Everywhere, young people are sighing down mobile phones.
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