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      A Clever Woman

      2023 1h 28m Drama List
      Reviews 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 and songs using the poems of Victorian, feminist poet Mary Coleridge, 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 (Anna Mottram) -- are forced to engage with the ghosts of the past and the void left behind. Read More Read Less

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      Peter Bradshaw Guardian It’s a confident, controlled piece of work which gives us a sliver of Englishness. Rated: 3/5 Apr 21, 2023 Full Review Edward Porter Sunday Times (UK) ... It's inconsequential. Rated: 2/5 May 1, 2023 Full Review Victoria Luxford City AM A small film asking big questions, the plot of A Clever Woman can be as scattershot as its lead characters. However, audiences will recognise the enormous emotions this story confronts. Rated: 3/5 Apr 27, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis 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 and songs using the poems of Victorian, feminist poet Mary Coleridge, 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 (Anna Mottram) -- are forced to engage with the ghosts of the past and the void left behind.
      Director
      Jon Sanders
      Producer
      Alex Sainsbury
      Screenwriter
      Jon Sanders
      Production Co
      Jon Sanders Films
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 28m