Blue Bag Life

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Blue Bag Life

2022

1h 30m

Drama

Biography

Documentary

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Blue Bag Life is a feature documentary about addiction and love. A daughter is searching to understand her mother's absence: were they 'estranged' because of heroin, or did their separation run deeper than addiction? The daughter falls in love, but he too brings heroin into their home. Blue Bag Life will be constructed from over 40 years of Lisa's raw and poetic archive: home footage, camera phone footage, photographs, diaries, voice notes, answerphone messages and letters.

Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

An act of real artistic generosity and bravery on the part of Selby, who bares her rawest emotional wounds and shares her lowest moments on this quest to fill the missing parts of her life.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 9, 2023

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Marina Ashioti

Little White Lies

Lisa Selby demonstrates a compelling degree of artistic assurance.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 6, 2023

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Cath Clarke

Guardian

[A] frank, intimate and incredibly moving documentary...

Rated: 4/5

Apr 4, 2023

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Jay Weissberg

The Film Verdict

A riveting cine-memoir that breaks through all the pitfalls of film-as-therapy: it’s a deeply personal story with universal resonance, and it’s impossible not to be moved.

Jun 6, 2023

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

This film is intimate and almost startlingly confessional. It's also a work of art.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 11, 2023

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Edward Porter

Sunday Times (UK)

... The film’s winding, contemplative structure is rewarding, and the story’s core subject is not obscure: it’s someone building a life in tough circumstances.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 10, 2023

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Blue Bag Life is a feature documentary about addiction and love. A daughter is searching to understand her mother's absence: were they 'estranged' because of heroin, or did their separation run deeper than addiction? The daughter falls in love, but he too brings heroin into their home. Blue Bag Life will be constructed from over 40 years of Lisa's raw and poetic archive: home footage, camera phone footage, photographs, diaries, voice notes, answerphone messages and letters.

Director: Rebecca Lloyd-Evans, Alex Fry, Lisa Selby
Producer: Natasha Dack
Screenwriter: Lisa Selby, Josie Cole, Josie Cole, Lisa Selby
Production Co: Tigerlily Productions
Genre: Drama, Biography, Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 30m