First Trailer For British Indie Drama A Clever Woman
Next week the Edinburgh Film Festival will take place. One of the films set to make it’s world premiere is Jon Sander’s A Clever Woman. Tull Stories have sent us the UK Trailer for the British indie drama as sisters reunite.
Phoebe and Dot (Josie Lawrence and Tanya Myers) have returned to their family home on the Isle of Wight a year after the death of their composer mother. As they prepare the house for its sale, clearing decades of family clutter, they have started to work on a site-specific performance piece about their complex relationship with their mother and her serial infidelities
No hiding it, death comes to us all. It’s when you head to their homes clearing out the memories, it’s going to be emotional…
Synopsis | Beguiling and free-spirited, A Clever Woman is an uplifting and emotionally intense film exploring sisterly bonds and the process of mourning. Sisters and performance artists Phoebe and Dot (Josie Lawrence and Tanya Myers) have returned to their family home on the Isle of Wight a year after the death of their composer mother.
As they prepare the house for its sale, clearing decades of family clutter, they have started to work on a site-specific performance piece about their complex relationship with their mother and her serial infidelities; this incorporates her compositions for pianola, mostly songs using the poems of Mary Coleridge the Victorian feminist, one of which A Clever Woman gives the film its title.
Over one day, they – plus house-sitting musician Tom (James Northcote) and the sisters’ producer/curator Monica are forced to engage with the ghosts of the past and the void left behind.
The film stars Josie Lawrence, Tanya Myers, James Northcote, Anna Mottram, Bob Goody. A Clever Woman will be released in UK and Irish cinemas in 2023, The film will make their world premiere on 15th August, Book Tickets.
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