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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.
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A 1992 Scottish film by Margaret Tait, based on her own screenplay and poetry. It explores the life and death of a poet and her daughter, with flashbacks and dream sequences, but suffers from slow pacing and lack of clarity.
"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.
A film by Margaret Tait, a veteran avant-garde film-maker, about a woman's memories of her mother and the sea. The film explores the themes of life, death, guilt and meaning with poetic imagery and dialogue.
Ivana Miloš 26 Jul 2018. 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.
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.
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Blue Black Permanent | Film | The Guardian. Details: 1992, UK, Cert PG, 86 mins. Direction:Margaret Tait. Summary: Debut feature from veteran documentarist, about a daughter trying to find out...
