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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre languePortrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
- Nominé pour le prix 1 BAFTA Award
- 8 victoires et 26 nominations au total
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- AnecdotesThere was some controversy when the film won the Best New Documentary Filmmaker at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010 as some members of the jury were unsure whether it qualified as a documentary or not.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018)
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A unique, brave piece of documentary and docu-drama film making.
It tells the life story of UK playwright Andrea Dunbar, who s was discovered at a very young age in the British housing projects known as 'The Arbor' where she wrote about the alcoholism and family decay she watched around her.
The film uses two extraordinary devices, both of which I found off-putting at first, but had great impact by the end.
First, scenes from Dunbar's plays are staged in the open lawn areas of the real life Arbor, so we see a fight taking place in a living room at night acted out on the grass in broad daylight (with a couch and other living room props sitting there surreally, watched by – presumably – the neighborhood people still struggling under the same conditions. At first this just seemed distracting, but over time, it helped bring home that Dunbar's works represented real people, real lives, real pain.
The second, even odder and more audacious move, is to have all the interviews with the real participants acted out by professional actors lip-syncing to the recorded words of the real people. Again, the was distracting for the first while, but eventually it lead to the film feeling simultaneously dreamy and like a memory, and in some way more 'real' than if the actors simply used their own voices.
A very moving film that doesn't always work, but his heroic enough in it's bravery that it more than overcomes the occasional missed step.
The film uses two extraordinary devices, both of which I found off-putting at first, but had great impact by the end.
First, scenes from Dunbar's plays are staged in the open lawn areas of the real life Arbor, so we see a fight taking place in a living room at night acted out on the grass in broad daylight (with a couch and other living room props sitting there surreally, watched by – presumably – the neighborhood people still struggling under the same conditions. At first this just seemed distracting, but over time, it helped bring home that Dunbar's works represented real people, real lives, real pain.
The second, even odder and more audacious move, is to have all the interviews with the real participants acted out by professional actors lip-syncing to the recorded words of the real people. Again, the was distracting for the first while, but eventually it lead to the film feeling simultaneously dreamy and like a memory, and in some way more 'real' than if the actors simply used their own voices.
A very moving film that doesn't always work, but his heroic enough in it's bravery that it more than overcomes the occasional missed step.
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- runamokprods
- 18 oct. 2011
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Box-office
- Brut – États-Unis et Canada
- 21 620 $ US
- Fin de semaine d'ouverture – États-Unis et Canada
- 2 638 $ US
- 1 mai 2011
- Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 126 182 $ US
- Durée1 heure 34 minutes
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- Rapport de forme
- 1.78 : 1
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