A burbling stream of conscientiousness by a working class teenager (the superb Ashley Thewlis) recounts scenes from her life in the North of England. Culminating in a casual gesture that reveals a devastating secret, the film packs an unforgettable punch and forces us to review everything we have seen and heard.
Also 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. -
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. -
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2001
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2002
- Length
- 9'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
