Déborah Lukumuena

Danny Sapani

Le'Shantey Bonsu

Liana Turner

Ayesha Antoine

Caroline Deyga

Lael Tamakloe

Jenni Keenan-Green

Owen Whitelaw

Mark Cox

Andrew John Tait

Joanne Gallagher

Firas Ibrahim

Kai Bruce

Paul Ellard

Adura Onashile

Tasha Back

Stella Heath Keir

Soraya Gilanni

Christine Urquhart

Kirsty Halliday

Maya Man

Kat Morgan

Hazel d Smith

Ari Rissotti

Reece Steel

Jenny Stimpson

Yvonne Carroll

Iris Cohen

Neil Mackay

Richard Brough

Joanna Sturrock

Stuart Truesdale

Simone Grattarola

Jon Bruce

Laura Shand

Chris Maxwell

Meghan Grieve

William Aikman

Javi López

Becky Thomson

Peter Candler

James Hogarth

Ciara Barry

Rosie Crerar

Jennifer Armitage

Kristin Irving

Jim Reeve

Eva Yates

Soraya Gilanni Viljoen

Rosslyn Oman

Ré Olunuga

Drama

Girl

Great Point Media

Barry Crerar

Screen Scotland

BBC Film

Studio Soho

United Kingdom

English

Français

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Though the narrative is a little too undercooked here, this film does present us with two characterful performances from Déborah Lukumuena and Le'Shantey Bonsu. The former is "Grace" - a woman who lives in a rundown Glasgow high-rise with her daughter "Ama". Their's is a loving relationship tinged with a little maternal paranoia. "Grace" is forced to work as a cleaner at night and the girl is largely forbidden from leaving the flat - for her own safety - and that, naturally, attracts the attention of the social workers and the school teachers who are concerned for their wellbeing. Things are not helped by a decision to rehouse the family as the demolition men are soon to head to their tower block. When "Ama" befriends a neighbour from her school "Fiona" (a nice effort from Liana Turner), the couple's relationship starts to become severely tested and the two women face the first serious change to the established dynamic of their inter-dependency. The performances do go some way to making this film work, but the absence of context makes it difficult to engage with the story. We don't really know anything about the past that drove them to Scotland. Clearly there has been trauma for "Grace", but again - we know very little about what created that trouble. The direction is also very lethargic. Far too many tracking shots, walking to and fro, almost like director Adura Onashile was paddling out a short story into almost ninety minutes. I also found it to be rather over-scored. The paucity of dialogue does work at times, but the sense of loneliness and fear that generates is all to frequently overpowered by the music. It's an interesting story that is probably illustrative of many families relocated to a strange environment, but I just needed more substance and less meandering images for that to resonate better.

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