ONE DAY. Background Adaptation: David Nicholls’s (1966 - ) novel One Day; Bestseller Published in 2009 Film: 2011 dir. Lone Scherfig.

ONE DAY

Background• Adaptation: David Nicholls’s (1966 - ) novel One Day; • Bestseller• Published in 2009• Film: 2011• dir. Lone Scherfig

15 July• Swithun’s Day• Anglo-Saxon Bishop and

Patron saint of Winchester

Cathedral • Bishop between 853-862

15 July• Swithun’s miracles: the weather on 15 July will continue

for 40 days• His best known miracle was his restoration on a bridge of

a basket of eggs that workmen had maliciously broken• 15 July: his feast day • His body was transferred to Winchester Cathedral on 15

July 971

Swithun’s Memorial Shrine in Winchester Cathedral

Setting• Edinburgh, 1988 – 2006.

Arthur’s Seat• one of the earliest known sites of human habitation in the

area• Appears both in the film and in the novel; 250 m

Arthur’s Seat• Robert Louise Stevenson: "a hill for magnitude, a

mountain in virtue of its bold design”• Reference to King Arthur (like Ben Arthur in the Western

Highlands)• Often mentioned as one of the possible locations of

Camelot

GROUP WORK1. Why is Dexter unable to start a full relationship with Emma

before they meet in Paris?

2. Interpret the title of the film! Does it have any additional meaning apart from referring to the day when Dexter and Emma meet each year? Does this particular date make the form of the film comment on the themes it portrays?

3. What is the function of swimming in the film? Try to find other episodes in which water acquires a symbolical meaning!

4. Compare Emma’s and Dexter’s personalities! Why is it that Emma becomes famous only gradually while Dexter, though he is an instant success, loses all he has at the end of the film?

5. What do we know about Dexter’s family?

Parliament Hill Lido• A public unheated open air swimming pool, open for 12

months a year. It first opened in 1938.• The Lido is a 60 x 27 metre uncovered, unheated

swimming pool at Parliament Hill.• Water temperature: Lido: 9°C; Ladies' Pond: 7°C; Mixed

Pond: 8°C as of 1 December 2015.