15
1hr 21mins

Featuring intimate home video filmed over 30 years and using evocative, immersive filmmaking techniques, Irish artist Myrid Carten turns her camera on her troubled mother as she battles with alcoholism and depression. Carten has created a powerful creative documentary, establishing her as an immense talent to watch.


The 11:00 screening on Wed 22nd Oct is a Silver Screen screening.

Unfortunately no Audio Description track is available for this feature.
Myrid Carten
15
Documentary
Very strong language, mental health theme
English, Gaelic

When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house; and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself. A Want In Her is an immersive, first person account of the cost of love, and how difficult it can be to escape.


“The work of an artist, one who is making her own rules about how to tell this story, far from documentary dogmas … A Want in Her is reminiscent, at times, of the work of Jonathan Glazer. But it’s too original and accomplished for such parallels to stick.”

Screen Daily

“Raw, searing … a daughter’s shattering testament to her mother’s absence, presence and endurance … passages of cathartic beauty, grace and even humor.”

Variety

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Wed 22 Oct