A Curator
Eliza Brennan
British & Irish1960s realism through contemporary; emphasis on social realism and the kitchen-sink lineage
"I came to film through theatre — I was an actor for about ten minutes when I was twenty-one — and the films I love still feel theatrical to me in the best sense. Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Andrea Arnold, Steve McQueen, Lenny Abrahamson, Joanna Hogg. Films where the room matters as much as the people in it."
"I tend to send films that have working-class lives at their centre, films set in council estates or in pubs or in cars on motorways. I do not think this is a small territory. I think it is most of the territory."
— Eliza
From recent slates
From Andrea Arnold. Council estate, summer, a girl of fourteen and a horse. The horse matters more than I can explain in two sentences.
Mike Leigh, but not the Mike Leigh you might have seen. An early one, mostly two-handers, mostly in a kitchen. Watch what they do not say.
An Irish film. I am Irish so I will not pretend to be objective. But it is also genuinely a film, by which I mean a film that knows where to put the camera and where not to.
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