{"id":1488,"date":"2009-03-23T11:15:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcrrview.web.its.manchester.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2016-01-24T18:33:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T17:33:19","slug":"mother-mine-short-film-directed-by-susan-everett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"<em>Mother, Mine<\/em> (2008), dir. Susan Everett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mother, Mine is a short film by Leeds-based director Susan Everett. In November, it won the \u2018Best Yorkshire Short Award\u2019 as part of the Leeds International Film Festival. Now, it is showing at the Cubby Broccoli Cinema in Bradford as one of six films shortlisted for the Shine Short Film Award (part of the Bradford International Film Festival).<\/p>\n<p>The film begins with Alison, a young woman who has just lost her adoptive mother, producing a video message to send to Margaret, the biological mother that she has never met. \u201dHello Mum. My name\u2019s Alison. I was born on the sixth of June, twenty eight years ago. But you know that already, don\u2019t you?\u2026 I hope you want to meet me.\u201d  Nervously, she puts the video in the post, and waits.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret makes contact and they arrange to meet in a cafe. The two get on well, discover similarities in their lives and personalities \u2013 this could be the start of a lovely mother-daughter relationship. Or could it?<\/p>\n<p>Margaret lives a very ordered and domestic life. Everything about her, her home, her clothes, her make-up, is muted, uncontroversial, undramatic \u2013 all very beige and magnolia. Meeting Alison changes all that.<\/p>\n<p>The extensive use of close-up shots leaves Kelly Harrison (of Casualty fame), who plays Alison, and  Barbara Martin, playing Margaret, nowhere to hide. But they don\u2019t need to. Both play their roles with integrity and great emotion, realistically conveying the guilt and grief involved in being adopted or given up for adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Mother, Mine is a story about needing to love and be loved. The tale is played out very quietly, very gently, and without wanting to give the game away, very chillingly. If you\u2019re one of the people that grabs their coat and runs for the bus the second the credits come on in the cinema, don\u2019t! Another bus will be along in a minute \u2013 you need to see the end of this film.<\/p>\n<p>Mother, Mine  and the other Shine Short Film Award shortlisted films are showing at the Cubby Broccoli Cinema, Bradford, on 28th March.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother, Mine is a short film by Leeds-based director Susan Everett. In November, it won the \u2018Best Yorkshire Short Award\u2019 as part of the Leeds International Film Festival. 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