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THE ARBOR is a unique mixture of documentary and narrative filmmaking that examines the brief, turbulent life of playwright Andrea Dunbar.

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ProducerTracy O'riordan

EAN5055159277976

eBay Product ID (ePID)102184762

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Film/TV TitleThe Arbor

ActorRobery Emms, Christine Bottomley, Neil Dudgeon, Danny Webb, Natalie Gavin, Manjinder Virk, Monica Dolan

DirectorClio Barnard

FormatBlu-ray

LanguageEnglish

Release Year2011

FeaturesTrailer\Short Film: Road Race, Widescreen

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

GenreDrama, General

Run Time94 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Director of PhotographyOle Bratt Birkeland

ReviewsThe Times - Extraordinarily powerful, Little White Lies - Utterly astounding, totally absorbing and very moving, Time Out - One of the year's most original films stimulating and very moving

Consumer AdviceContains hard drug use and references and strong language, some racist

Additional InformationAndrea Dunbar was a British playwright whose work reflected the gritty realities of life in working-class Bradford, West Yorkshire. Dunbar knew of what she wrote -- she grew up in a Bradford council estate, had children by three different men, was a victim of domestic violence, and struggled with alcoholism before she died in 1990 when she was only 29. Andrea's daughter Lorraine Dunbar inherited her gift with language, but also her weaknesses; she also dealt with unhappy relationships with men, worked as a prostitute, became addicted to hard drugs, and served time for manslaughter when her two-year-old son died after drinking her methadone. Filmmaker Clio Barnard set out to tell the story of Andrea Dunbar's brief, troubled life and the neighbourhood where she lived and wrote, and THE ARBOR is a unique mixture of documentary and narrative filmmaking. In addition to interviews with members of Andrea Dunbar's family and residents of Bradford's Buttershaw estates, where Dunbar's plays took place (which are lip-synched by actors to create a distancing effect), the film includes passages from Dunbar's first play, also called THE ARBOR, played out against the real-life locations where the story is set.

Movie/TV TitleThe Arbor

Sound sourceDolby Digital

ScreenwriterClio Barnard

EditorNick Fenton, Daniel Goddard