Irish video-artist Myrid Carten's haunting feature debut presents a complex and unflinchingly honest portrait of her relationship with her alcoholic mother.
Carten’s film opens with a recording of a phone call she once made to the police, explaining that she had just seen her mother, Nuala, drunk on a bench in Belfast´s city centre. ‘I knew straight away it was Mummy,’ she tells them, ‘cos of the heels’. The film goes on to use phone call recordings and eerily prescient old home movie footage, alongside elements of performance and video installation, to tease out a candid and confronting portrait of a mother-daughter relationship marked by addiction. With a verité, handheld style that is often interrupted by the film's performative sequences (notably when Nuala plays herself), or some disquieting camera angles shot inside the family home, A Want in Her is at once furious and cathartic – an intricate and intense working-through of trauma and unconditional love.
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Premiere statusUK premiere
Film details
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Director(s)Myrid Carten
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Country(s)Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands
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Year2025
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Duration81 mins
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Producer(s)Róisín Geraghty / Inland Films Ltd, Kat Mansoor / Snowstorm Productions, Tadhg O'Sullivan / Inland Films Ltd, Eline van Wees / Basalt Film
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CinematographyDonna Wade, Sean Mullan
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EditingKaren Harley
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SoundMorgan Muse
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Language(s)English, Irish
