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Blue Black Permanent: Directed by Margaret Tait. With Celia Imrie, Jack Shepherd, Gerda Stevenson, James Fleet. Barbara Thorburn wiles away the hours with memories of Greta, her mother, the poet.
Synopsis. Tait’s debut feature is a haunting and magical film about a daughter’s attempts to come to terms with her mother’s mysterious death, not only through examining her own childhood memories but also going back further in time, to tales of her mother’s own childhood.
Review by Harrison Wade ★★★★½. A generational portrait of daughters, Blue Black Permanent is built on the same careful, attentive framing as Tait’s shorts. The single, static, shot comes in interludes between narrative sequences, often analytically introducing a space through choice objects.
Margaret Tait's tale of three generations of women in a Scottish family swirls out through a series of interlinking stories and recollections, taking place in Edinburgh and the Orkney Islands.
10 sept. 2012 · A first feature from veteran avant-garde film-maker Tait, a septuagenarian Orcadian. A work of extraordinary emotion, the film takes the form of a remembrance, with troubled Edinburgh...
Une jeune fille tente d’accepter la disparition de sa mère après une mort mystérieuse. Pour cela, elle va examiner non seulement ses propres souvenirs d’enfance mais aussi ceux de sa défunte mère. Tait nous livre un premier film troublant emprunt de féerie.
"Blue Black Permanent" is a poignant and poetic film that tells the story of three generations of women in a remote Scottish island community. The film explores the complexities of their relationships, as they navigate the challenges of family, identity, and memory.
