Author Emma Donoghue takes Vogue through the project, starring Florence Pugh.
Setting the narrative in the Midlands enabled the Irish-Canadian Donoghue to be more “critical” , with the spectre of the famine providing additional context for Anna’s fasting. “It made sense that this community would be obsessively preoccupied with food and whether it’s necessary, whether someone can merely rise above hunger,” she notes.
to shoot one of its first Irish productions.” Among Montgomery’s key references in terms of the film’s aesthetic? The paintings of American artist Andrew Wyeth, Terrence Malick’sand Donoghue’s own descriptions of the greens and browns found in “the landscape of her childhood”.
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