Most low budget film makers go digital, but by insisting on using only 35 mm
stock as one of their (almost Dogme-95-style) self-imposed film-making
disciplines, co-directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor lent their Civic Life
Project series of shorts a uniquely cinematic sensiblity. With their new
feature, Helen, about what happens when a child in care is asked to play the
part of a murdered girl in a crime reconstruction, these same techniques are
used to address issues of identity in ways that are disturbing, moving and
recall some of my very favourite films. For an interview with Joe and Christine
go to BBC Film Network.
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