FACTFILE
Genre - Drama / Documentary / BiographyUK Release Date - 22nd October 2010Director - Clio BarnardStaring - Manjinder Virk Christine Bottomley Natalie GavinProduction Company/s - Artangel MediaFilming Locations - Bradford / West Yorkshire - England, UKDistributors - Strand Release Verve Productions
STORYLINE + REVIEW
Andrea Dunbar was something of a child prodigy growing up on the underprivileged Buttershaw Estate in Bradford. Dunbar wrote her first play The Arbor, (named after the street on which she lived Brafferton Arbor,) at the tender age of 15. The play, which debuted at the Royal Court Theatre in 1980, depicts the turbulent life of pregnant teenager with a father who is an abusive alcoholic. In 1982 Dunbar wrote the follow up Rita, Sue and Bob Too! which was later turned into a film by the director Alan Clarke. By 1990, at just 29 years old, Andrea Dunbar was dead, killed by an apparent brain haemorrhage the talented author left behind three young children. Artist and filmmaker Clio Barnard's new biopic, also entitled The Arbor, attempts not only to tell Andrea's story but also that of her eldest daughter Lorraine, who was imprisoned in 2007 for the manslaughter of her son Harris.
Life has been particularly difficult for eldest daughter Lorraine growing up as a mixed-race child a predominately white estate she was racially abused on a daily basis for having a Pakistani father. Just 10 years old when her mother passed away Lorraine would later turn to prostitution to feed her drug habit. As her life quickly spiralled out of control she fell pregnant by one of her clients and struggled to bring up her child.
RELATION TO OUR FILMThe film 'The Arbor' has less similarities to our film than 'Albatross' as the protagonist in this film is a world away from the protagonist in out film, as this protagonist is a grown woman and a playright meaning she is of higher social class to our protagonist and of a different age. The main similarities between our film and 'The Arbor' is that it is a biographical storyline following the life of one person ie the protagonist. It also portrays the troubled relationship between a Mother and a Daughter, which is similar to our film as it portrays a dis-equilibrium between a mother and daughter which is precisely what happens in our film. The only difference is that the protagonist who leads 'The Arbor' is the Mother, wheras our protagonist is the daughter.
Genre - Drama / Documentary / Biography
UK Release Date - 22nd October 2010
Director - Clio Barnard
Staring - Manjinder Virk
Christine Bottomley
Natalie Gavin
Production Company/s - Artangel Media
Filming Locations - Bradford / West Yorkshire - England, UK
Distributors - Strand Release
Verve Productions
Andrea Dunbar was something of a child prodigy growing up on the underprivileged Buttershaw Estate in Bradford. Dunbar wrote her first play The Arbor, (named after the street on which she lived Brafferton Arbor,) at the tender age of 15. The play, which debuted at the Royal Court Theatre in 1980, depicts the turbulent life of pregnant teenager with a father who is an abusive alcoholic. In 1982 Dunbar wrote the follow up Rita, Sue and Bob Too! which was later turned into a film by the director Alan Clarke. By 1990, at just 29 years old, Andrea Dunbar was dead, killed by an apparent brain haemorrhage the talented author left behind three young children. Artist and filmmaker Clio Barnard's new biopic, also entitled The Arbor, attempts not only to tell Andrea's story but also that of her eldest daughter Lorraine, who was imprisoned in 2007 for the manslaughter of her son Harris.
Life has been particularly difficult for eldest daughter Lorraine growing up as a mixed-race child a predominately white estate she was racially abused on a daily basis for having a Pakistani father. Just 10 years old when her mother passed away Lorraine would later turn to prostitution to feed her drug habit. As her life quickly spiralled out of control she fell pregnant by one of her clients and struggled to bring up her child.
RELATION TO OUR FILM
The film 'The Arbor' has less similarities to our film than 'Albatross' as the protagonist in this film is a world away from the protagonist in out film, as this protagonist is a grown woman and a playright meaning she is of higher social class to our protagonist and of a different age. The main similarities between our film and 'The Arbor' is that it is a biographical storyline following the life of one person ie the protagonist. It also portrays the troubled relationship between a Mother and a Daughter, which is similar to our film as it portrays a dis-equilibrium between a mother and daughter which is precisely what happens in our film. The only difference is that the protagonist who leads 'The Arbor' is the Mother, wheras our protagonist is the daughter.
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