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 Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
QFT
2.30pm Sunday 13 April |
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The Mulberry Bush is a boarding school for children who have become Unmanageable, this film witnesses their attempted education.
With two adults assigned to each student, the children at Mulberry receive an abundance of adult attention. Students are never punished for their actions -
the staff work hard to keep communication open with the children, despite being kicked, slapped and spat upon. In the most extreme cases, children are put into a physical ‘friendly hold’, from which they are released when they have calmed down, and agree to behave.
Kim Longinotto won the inaugural Maysles Brothers Award for her film Sisters in Law at the Belfast Film Festival in 2006. Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go is a brilliantly observed record of daily life at the school, drawing out characters and very human stories from the chaos. She follows students through lessons that are frequently interrupted by outbursts. As badly behaved as the kids are, the film is not without humour and we never lose empathy with them. Their relationships with their parents are telling, whilst the skills and dedication of the teachers’ appears positively heroic
There can be no doubt of the fact that Kim Longinotto is one of the finest filmmakers working in the UK today, and this film certainly gives credence to the notion.
Time Out
Dir. Kim Longinotto – 2007 - UK - 100 mins - Cert PG
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