Country: GB
Technical: col 86m
Director: Claire Oakley
Cast: Molly Windsor, Joseph Quinn, Stefanie Martini
Synopsis:
An 18 year-old girl travels to a Cornish trailer park to be with her long-term boyfriend, but her surroundings and insecurities bring her to a reassessment of her feelings.
Review:
Typically British (i.e. allusive in the extreme), this BFI/BBC funded production plays like an over-extended short, constantly setting up a train of thought or clue in one scene, only to push it to one side and go off somewhere else, and then ending on a look. We are dealt sexual jealousy (red hair), eerily human fox cries, premonitory Lynchian shots in and around the mobile homes, a glimpsed lesbian coupling in the shower block, the threatening immanence of the sea, a grave among the sand dunes, and so on. The men fight; the girls bond. And that's it. Is it all about the sexual re-awakening of the protagonist, this curiously affectless girl, who interrupts love-making to have a quick wank in the bathroom? Beats me. But Oakley captures a certain out-of-season uncanniness well, even though the weather is far too good, and everything too clean, while Martini is appealing as the older girl whose trailer positively oozes atmosphere and comfort.
Country: GB
Technical: col 86m
Director: Claire Oakley
Cast: Molly Windsor, Joseph Quinn, Stefanie Martini
Synopsis:
An 18 year-old girl travels to a Cornish trailer park to be with her long-term boyfriend, but her surroundings and insecurities bring her to a reassessment of her feelings.
Review:
Typically British (i.e. allusive in the extreme), this BFI/BBC funded production plays like an over-extended short, constantly setting up a train of thought or clue in one scene, only to push it to one side and go off somewhere else, and then ending on a look. We are dealt sexual jealousy (red hair), eerily human fox cries, premonitory Lynchian shots in and around the mobile homes, a glimpsed lesbian coupling in the shower block, the threatening immanence of the sea, a grave among the sand dunes, and so on. The men fight; the girls bond. And that's it. Is it all about the sexual re-awakening of the protagonist, this curiously affectless girl, who interrupts love-making to have a quick wank in the bathroom? Beats me. But Oakley captures a certain out-of-season uncanniness well, even though the weather is far too good, and everything too clean, while Martini is appealing as the older girl whose trailer positively oozes atmosphere and comfort.
