GUEST HOUSE PARADISO - LE

(Adrian Edmondson, 1999)
Release date: 26 August 2024
Limited Edition Blu-ray (UK premiere)

After a decade of honing their signature characters, Richie and Eddie, across TV and stage-show appearances, British comedy legends Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson (The Comic Strip Presents..., The Young Ones) finally gave the pair the big-screen outing which they truly deserved in the riotous, vomit-soaked entertainment that is Guest House Paradiso.

When Mr Nice (Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead) and his family check in to ‘the cheapest hotel in Britain’ – run with maximum inefficiency and malfeasance by Richie and Eddie – it sets off an outrageous chain of events involving rubber underwear, a beautiful Italian film star (Hélène Mahieu), her abusive fiancé (Vincent Cassel, Irreversible), and a consignment of radioactive fish.

Featuring a spectacular supporting cast, which also includes Fenella Fielding (Carry On Screaming!, Hammer’s The Old Dark House) and Bill Nighy (Love Actually), this slapstick tour-de-force is a latter-day classic of disreputable British comedy, which has to be seen to be believed.

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• 4K restoration from the original interpositive
  
• Original 5.1 surround sound and stereo audio tracks
  
• The Making of ‘Guest House Paradiso’ (1999, 38 mins): archival documentary featuring interviews with actor, co-writer and director Adrian Edmondson, actor and co-writer Rik Mayall, producer Phil McIntyre, and actors Fenella Fielding, Hélène Mahieu and Simon Pegg
  
• Paradiso Pegg (2023, 12 mins): interview with celebrated actor, writer and comedian Simon Pegg in which he looks back at his time making the film
  
• All the Right Noises (2024, 16 mins): prolific film and television composer Colin Towns talks about his score
  
• Finely Tuned Madness (2024, 8 mins): veteran editor Sean Barton discusses his working methods and the art of cutting comedy
  
• Squalid Precision (2024, 19 mins): production designer Tom Brown explores the guest house
  
• Outtakes (1999, 9 mins): mishaps and bloopers
  
• Original theatrical trailers
  
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
  
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  
• Limited edition exclusive 40-page booklet with a new essay by Jon Robertson, an archival on-set report, an archival interview with Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
  
• UK premiere on Blu-ray
  
• Limited edition of 6,000 copies for the UK
  
  

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BBFC cert: 15
REGION B
EAN: 5060697923940