Billy’s Wake
Billy's Wake
Unable to focus on his future as a middleaged suburbanite marrying into a satellite television business, Billy finds himself transported back to his 1970s heyday to raise a glass to a lost friend and lay his ghosts to rest. By the director of Burying the Dead, Klaus Fried’s elegiac film resonates with the distortions of memory, guilt and lost time, full of longing for the kind of youthful exuberance that can bubble over into violence.
Also in this combined programme
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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. -
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2001
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2002
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
