

From the moment I read this, I was changed." - M. Its theme of ageing had me thinking about my parents and children, and how quickly it all goes by. It is a profound mystery sci-fi graphic novel that is illustrated so beautifully and with such humanity. Praise for Sandcastle: "Sandcastle truly inspired my film Old.

Levy's dramatic storytelling works seamlessly with Peeters's sinister art to create a profoundly disturbing and fantastical mystery. Soon everybody is growing older-every half hour-and there doesn't seem to be any way out of the cove.

Then there is the odd fact that all the children are aging rapidly. First there is the dead body of a woman found floating in the crystal-clear water. It's a perfect beach day, or so thought the family, young couple, a few tourists, and a refugee who all end up in the same secluded, idyllic cove filled with rock pools and sandy shore, encircled by green, densely vegetated cliffs. Night Shyamalan, from his screenplay based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters. The inspiration for Old, a Blinding Edge Pictures production, directed and produced by two-time Oscar nominee M.
