A dancer's body becomes a battleground for three generations of women who forgot how to touch.
Modern dance is an evocative narrative tool in Georgia Parris' debut, which investigates a young woman's identity and the complex relationship she has with her mother and sister.
Acting
Bobbi Jene Smith's raw, non-professional-actor vulnerability cracks you open.
Direction
Parris lets silence scream louder than dialogue ever could.
Cinematography
Ballet of grief shot in cramped bedrooms and empty studios.
Director
Georgia Parris
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bobbi Jene Smith was a real professional dancer; Parris cast her precisely because she couldn't 'act' traditionally.
The film quietly mirrors Georgia's own family dance history — that suffocating coastal house is based on her grandmother's home.
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