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Let Me Go

  • 20172017
  • 1h 41m
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5.6/10
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Let Me Go (2017)
A film about mothers and daughters, it is about ghosts from the past and the impact they leave on the present.
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Let Me Go is a film about mothers and daughters, about ghosts from the past and the impact they leave on the present. Developed from Helga Schneider's true-life story, Let Me Go explores the... Read allLet Me Go is a film about mothers and daughters, about ghosts from the past and the impact they leave on the present. Developed from Helga Schneider's true-life story, Let Me Go explores the effect on Helga's life of being abandoned by her mother Traudi in 1941 when she was just ... Read allLet Me Go is a film about mothers and daughters, about ghosts from the past and the impact they leave on the present. Developed from Helga Schneider's true-life story, Let Me Go explores the effect on Helga's life of being abandoned by her mother Traudi in 1941 when she was just four years old. The film is set in the year 2000 and follows not only Helga and Traudi's j... Read all

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  • Director
    • Polly Steele
  • Writer
    • Polly Steele
  • Stars
    • Juliet Stevenson
    • Jodhi May
    • Lucy Boynton
Top credits
  • Director
    • Polly Steele
  • Writer
    • Polly Steele
  • Stars
    • Juliet Stevenson
    • Jodhi May
    • Lucy Boynton
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    • 17User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 6 nominations

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    Jodhi May, Juliet Stevenson, and Lucy Boynton in Let Me Go (2017)
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    Let Me Go Helga (Juliet Stevenson) and Traudi (Karin Bertling)
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    Jodhi May, Juliet Stevenson, Karin Bertling, and Lucy Boynton in Let Me Go (2017)

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    Juliet Stevenson
    Juliet Stevenson
    • Helgaas Helga
    Jodhi May
    Jodhi May
    • Bethas Beth
    Lucy Boynton
    Lucy Boynton
    • Emilyas Emily
    Karin Bertling
    Karin Bertling
    • Traudias Traudi
    Stanley Weber
    Stanley Weber
    • Sergeas Serge
    Éva Magyar
    Éva Magyar
    • Evaas Eva
    Abhin Galeya
    Abhin Galeya
    • Chrisas Chris
    Lioba de Graaff
    • Young Helgaas Young Helga
    Elizabeth Webster
    Elizabeth Webster
    • Danias Dani
    Simona Hughes
    • Fraulein Adleras Fraulein Adler
    Lou Rhodes
    • Nightclub Singeras Nightclub Singer
    Justin Butcher
    Justin Butcher
    • Ralphas Ralph
    Justin Smalley
    • Barman in Jazz Clubas Barman in Jazz Club
    Andrew Murton
    • Drunk Manas Drunk Man
    • (as Andy Murton)
    Elena Platon
    Elena Platon
    • Serge's Exas Serge's Ex
    Matteo Darius Armore
    • Serge's Sonas Serge's Son
    Thomas Cowperwood
    • Barman in Serge's Baras Barman in Serge's Bar
    • (as Thomas A. Cowper Wood)
    Sevda Levent Costner
    Sevda Levent Costner
    • Katerina. Waitress in Beer Gardenas Katerina. Waitress in Beer Garden
    • (as Sevda Levent)
    • Director
      • Polly Steele
    • Writer
      • Polly Steele
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    Let Me Go is a film about mothers and daughters, about ghosts from the past and the impact they leave on the present. Developed from Helga Schneider's true-life story, Let Me Go explores the effect on Helga's life of being abandoned by her mother Traudi in 1941 when she was just four years old. The film is set in the year 2000 and follows not only Helga and Traudi's journeys but the next two generations and how Helga's daughter Beth and granddaughter Emily are confronted with the long-term effects of Traudi's desertion. When Helga receives a letter telling her that Traudi is close to death, it is Emily with whom Helga shares the truth. Emily volunteers to accompany her to Vienna to meet the great-grandmother she thought was dead and experience the unraveling of the darkest of family secrets. —Polly Steele
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    • mother daughter relationship
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    A generational odyssey of dark revelation and emotional turmoil!
    Based upon the true life memoire of Helga Schneider, Let Me Go explores the effect of abandonment and its rippling impact on family relationships; in this instance between four generations of women in the same family. A fantastic cast led by Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply) playing Helga deliver on a thoughtful emotional and superbly adapted screenplay from Polly Steele (who also directs this independently financed piece – prize winning at Bentonville for the ensemble cast and part of the official selection for the Edinburgh Film Festival). Set in the London of 2000, we meet Helga as a woman working as a dressmaker in London who receives an unsettling letter and puts it away as her granddaughter calls into the shop. With a bit of cajoling by the granddaughter, Emily (Lucy Boynton – Sing Street), we learn Helga's cousin, Eva, has written from Vienna to say that Helga's mother, Traudi is close to death in a nursing home. That sad news is not only a revelation for Emily and Helga's own daughter, Beth (as a somewhat lost soul and free spirit by Jodhi May) as neither were aware of a Traudi's being alive, but it is clear that Helga doesn't want to talk about the estrangement. It is only with some interweaving of flashbacks and Helga's own reluctant partial remarks that we learn that 60 years earlier Helga (then only four years old), is left in wartime Germany by Traudi to the care of an aunt. Traudi embodies many contradictions as both vulnerable, needy and confused old woman in a care home, but then at times revealing that she is sharp, devious and quite wicked. Without doubt played brilliantly by Swedish actress, Karin Bertling (The Bridge and Wallander). Emily's naïve excitement at discovering she has a long lost great- grandmother and her genuine affection for Helga sees her wheedling onto the trip to Vienna where we then get to follow not only the tides of Helga and Traudi's lives, but to see the unmistakable effects that mark Beth and Emily with the inevitable unravelling of family secrets and guilt. Underpinned by a moving and sympathetic soundtrack composed by Phil Selway (Radiohead) beautifully using a string quartet to mirror the main protagonists and the beautiful and poignant settings in and around Vienna, this film makes one think about the very essence of life, relationships and family ties. Bravo to the UPP for giving this two sold out shows and I hope there may be a growing take up of this small masterpiece of storytelling.

    CHARLIE MCGINTY
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    • Release date
      • September 15, 2017 (United Kingdom)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • Austria
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • German
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La huella del pasado
    • Filming locations
      • Hounslow, Greater London, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Evolutionary Films
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $17,653
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
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      • Color

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