Jane Arden Season: The Other Side of the Underneath

Dir. Jane Arden, 1972

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Sun 12 December 2010 // 19:30 / Cinema

Described by the BBC critic David Will as ‘a major breakthrough
for the British cinema’ and George Melly called it ‘a most illuminating season in Hell’ Jane Arden's violent and powerful adaptation of her work with The Holocaust women's theatre troupe is an exploration into the mind of a woman labelled schizophrenic, whilst challenging the taboos of society. The piece is the only British feature film of the 1970s with a solo female direction credit and also features an incredibly powerful soundtrack led principally by the work of cellist Sally Pullinger.