Donaldson also directed 'The Bank Job' -- possibly Jason Statham's best flick, but the main reason he's on my radar is 'The November Man', or more precisely, the trailer for same. Don't know off the top of my head who edited this trailer, but it's cut like a gem.
Flick could also be one of, if not best by, Pierce Brosnan, so there's a pattern forming.
What gets me about 'The Guinea Pig Club' is it's based on Archibald McIndoe's life. According to Wiki, McIndoe was a plastic surgeon who treated severly burned and facially disfigured pilots in England during World War II.
Very moved by this account by one of McIndoe's patients, Richard Hillary:
Gradually I realized what had happened. My face and hands had been scrubbed and then sprayed with tannic acid. [...] My arms were propped up in front of me, the fingers extended like witches' claws, and my body was hung loosely on straps just clear of the bed.
Shortly after my arrival at the Masonic the Royal Air Force plastic surgeon, A. H. McIndoe, had come to see me. [...] Of medium height, he was thick-set and the line of his jaw was square. Behind his horn-rimmed spectacles a pair of tired friendly eyes regarded me speculatively.
"Well," he said, "you certainly made a thorough job of it, didn't you?" He started to undo the dressings on my hands and I noticed his fingers – blunt, captive, incisive. By now all the tannic had been removed from my face and hands. He took a scalpel and tapped lightly on something white showing through the red granulating knuckle of my right fore-finger. "Bone," he remarked laconically. He looked at the badly contracted eyelids and the rapidly forming keloids, and pursed his lips. "Four new eyelids, I'm afraid, but you are not ready for them yet. I want all this skin to soften up a lot first."
This time when the dressings were taken down I looked exactly like an orang-outang. McIndoe had pinched out two semicircular ledges of skin under my eyes to allow for contraction of the new lids. What was not absorbed was to be sliced off when I came in for my next operation, a new upper lip.This is looking like an awards contender. Looking forward to first trailer.
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