GLOUCESTER FEATURE FILM RETURNS TO THE SCREEN IN WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE

From Friday 16 June 2023, the Electric Picture House Cinema in Wotton-under-Edge is screening a pair of newly-released films produced in the local area.

First shown locally to a sell-out audience as part of the 2023 Stroud Film Festival, the enigmatic drama Inland (15), set and filmed around Gloucester, returns for a longer run as part of its national release.

Starring Mark Rylance and Rory Alexander, Inland is a modern folktale that explores the fractured identity of a young man after the mysterious disappearance of his mother. Guided by a father figure and old friends who care deeply, his journey through the dreamlike spaces of rural England brings him face to face with the loss that haunts him in ways he could never have expected.

First-time director Fridtjof Ryder and his team shot the film in 2020, and it received its world premiere at the 2022 London Film Festival, where it was compared by critics to the work of David Lynch and Nicolas Roeg. At the time, Ryder said of the film, "It is the kind of film that glowed out from its setting of Gloucester. The film's genesis comes from my hometown, from my first loves growing up, and of course from films. The borderland between myth and the present, the thin line between the past and now, in rural England, walking through the landscape, feels so powerful. I guess that’s what the film is really about; how the land shapes us, a love letter to mothers, and how, hiding somewhere, between the cracks, is something illogical, something in the form of dream and memory and poetry that is older than us, and that speaks to us about this land we live on, and this borrowed time we live in."

Supporting the screenings is a short film made in Stroud. Written and directed by Susan Lynch, whose many TV appearances include roles in Happy Valley, Bloodlands, Sex Education and Killing Eve, A Woman's Face is about the aftermath of suicide on a man’s bereaved wife. When her husband’s body is retrieved from a canal, Anna walks out on her young children and retraces her dead husband's steps.

Susan says that the film was inspired by her own experiences. “I wanted to do a short film about bereavement and loss after a few years of experiencing that myself. For me there is something so precious about our own internal worlds and nothing can capture that quite like film. For me the film is also a love letter to our dead. That somewhere there is always the memory and feeling of their love. That death can truly be a rebirth and revelation about the loves you have left, and how those people will hold you.”

Tickets can be booked on www.wottoncinema.com.

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