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The Colour Room

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Clarice Cliff (Phoebe Dynevor) is a vivacious young factory worker in the industrial British midlands of the 1920s. Her creativity and ambition drives her to move factory to factory, despite the financial impact on the household she shares with her widowed mother Ann (Kerry Fox) and youngest sister Dot (Darci Shaw). Bursting at the seams with ideas for colors and shapes, Clarice takes more and more dangerous risks -- but she manages to stay one step ahead of the workhouse and impress the eccentric factory owner Colley Shorter (Matthew Goode) on the way with her talent and innovation. Apprenticed to renowned Art Designer Fred Ridgeway (David Morrissey) and with support from Colley and other women in the factory, Clarice fights her way through to design the unprecedented Art Deco 'Bizarre' range. In the middle of the Great Depression, she ensures the factory's survival and her future as one of the greatest Art Deco designers and a household name.

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Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Phoebe Dynevor saves the day for what might have been a formulaic made-for-telly biopic about the ceramicist and feminist trailblazer Clarice Cliff. Rated: 3/5 Nov 12, 2021 Full Review Ed Power Daily Telegraph (UK) For all the contrivances, it's hard to deny the Colour Room's charms. Rated: 4/5 Nov 11, 2021 Full Review Cath Clarke Guardian [An] entertaining feelgood period drama, a bright and upbeat film that perhaps comes over as just a bit strenuously cheerful in places. Rated: 3/5 Nov 10, 2021 Full Review Ruth Maramis FlixChatter Film Blog This is a pretty conventional biopic for such an avant-garde artist, but Phoebe Dynevor proves she's a versatile actress, and the beautiful costumes + set pieces should please period drama fans. Rated: 3.5/5 Jul 6, 2023 Full Review Danny Brogan Common Sense Media Like the colorful designs that gave Cliff her reputation, this is a film with plenty of gloss that has no interest in the cracks and shades of gray of real life. Rated: 3/5 Dec 8, 2021 Full Review Aine O'Connor Sunday Independent (Ireland) History is not just about the big moments. There are so many smaller events and lesser-known people, especially women, who shape the world in which we live. Claire McCarthy's film is about one such woman. Rated: 3/5 Nov 18, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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dalee p Delightful! Lovely film Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/12/23 Full Review X O Films always follow a story arc of the hero, but it's still a nice film. Free spirits need love. They give it, too. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/11/23 Full Review Gigi S Many first class movies have been drawn from the lives of real people. The Colour Room is based on the early life of Clarice Cliff (Phoebe Dynevor) whose tradition defying pottery designs became popular during the era of Art Deco. Cliff's widowed mother took in laundry, her father had been an iron worker. After minimal art training at a trade school, young Clarice was employed at Wilkinson Pottery, where her ambition and originality attract the notice of the factory design director and one of the family owners, played by underrated actor Matthew Goode. The movie is well directed, well acted, and an interesting story even if one isn't artistically inclined. If you are, you'll love it even more, as I do. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/09/23 Full Review Gray R This is movie watching at its best; historical, great character development, excellent cinematography, nuanced sexuality, steady tension...I vote for more like this. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/02/23 Full Review Leslie K Fantastic movie. Good story, great acting and beautifully directed. Loved it! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Because of the heart of the story and its loving interpretations, "The Color Room" is a very fine piece of pottery "No man can appreciate and produce beautiful things whose sense of color is outraged every day by the dirt and soot that covers everything" Pottery Gazette, 1919. "The Color Room" chronicles the life and work of English potter Clarice Cliff. A period drama that links the "romantic" 1920s with the story of a woman capable of overcoming her ingenuity in the face of any adversity. Starring Phoebe Dynevor, in her film debut. "The color room", interposes Clarice's creativity, with the industrialized and misogynistic world of that time; Added to the charismatic performances, this film has all the nuances that are required to build a quite believable and entertaining story. @sebest_pictures Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Claire McCarthy

Director

Phoebe Dynevor

Clarice Cliff

Matthew Goode

Colley Shorter

Kerry Fox

Ann

David Morrissey

Fred Ridgeway

Darci Shaw

Dot

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Synopsis Clarice Cliff (Phoebe Dynevor) is a vivacious young factory worker in the industrial British midlands of the 1920s. Her creativity and ambition drives her to move factory to factory, despite the financial impact on the household she shares with her widowed mother Ann (Kerry Fox) and youngest sister Dot (Darci Shaw). Bursting at the seams with ideas for colors and shapes, Clarice takes more and more dangerous risks -- but she manages to stay one step ahead of the workhouse and impress the eccentric factory owner Colley Shorter (Matthew Goode) on the way with her talent and innovation. Apprenticed to renowned Art Designer Fred Ridgeway (David Morrissey) and with support from Colley and other women in the factory, Clarice fights her way through to design the unprecedented Art Deco 'Bizarre' range. In the middle of the Great Depression, she ensures the factory's survival and her future as one of the greatest Art Deco designers and a household name.
Director
Claire McCarthy
Producer
Thembisa Cochrane, Georgie Paget
Screenwriter
Claire Peate
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English