From Page To Screen: Typist Artist Pirate King (2023) (12A)

Bridport’s definitive film festival celebrating the art of literary adaptation.

This year’s guest curator will be Screenwriter and Director, Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

Monica Dolan (unrecognisable from her role as sub-postmistress Jo Hamilton in Mr Bates vs The Post Office) delivers another standout performance as the chaotic, talented but forgotten artist Audrey Amiss. A Royal Academy graduate who spent her life in and out of mental institutions when not working as a civil service secretary, Amiss documented her life in sketchbooks and used cereal boxes whose vivid pages flash onto the screen, interwoven with an imagined cross-country journey sublimely captured by cinematographer Agnès Godard.

The film is a warm-hearted tribute from one of Britain’s most original filmmakers, Carol Morley (Out of Blue, The Falling, Dreams of a Life, The Alcohol Years). Her funny, touching road movie follows Audrey’s quixotic adventures as she heads North with her reluctant chauffeur, psychiatric nurse Sandra (Kelly MacDonald), encountering a dizzying series of scrapes and detours on her quest for artistic fulfilment.

DIRECTOR | Carol Morley
STARS | Monica Dolan, Kelly Macdonald and Gina McKee
SOURCE TEXT | Audrey Amiss’s archive of diaries, letters and art
SCREENWRITER | Carol Morley

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Bridport Arts Centre

Friday 26th April at 5pm

Tickets: Adult £6 | Cons & U25’s £5

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