Family Hell
Combined programme
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IFFR 2002
Alienation, schizophrenia, infanticide, regret and a rusting Peugeot are all part of the joys of British family life. This programme shows something of Lynne Ramsay influence on new film-making, alongside strikingly subjective interpretations of adolescent perspectives.
In this combined programme
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Billy’s Wake
Film elegy resonates with the distortions of memory, guilt and lost time, full of longing for the kind of youthful exuberance that can bubble over… -
Mama, Look
Competing with her mother’s boyfriend and their new baby for attention, a neglected seven-year-old girl slips into violence. -
About a Girl
A burbling stream of conscientiousness by a working-class teenager (the superb Ashley Thewlis) recounts scenes from her life in the North of England. -
Camouflage
Mixed animation and live-action techniques tell the stories of kids with a schizophrenic parent. -
Home Road Movies
About a shy and clumsy father, who thinks that a family car will turn him into a better parent. -
Field
An elegant, abstracted expression of provincial life in which ordinary everyday details become frozen and magnified. -
