Sat 18 Nov
|The Poly
Typist Artist Pirate King + Director Carol Morley & Mark Kermode talk
A touching comedy-drama following artist Audrey Amiss (and her psychiatric nurse) on a fictionalised road trip.
Time & Location
18 Nov 2023, 19:45 – 22:40
The Poly, 24 Church St, Falmouth TR11 3EG, UK
About
Award Winning films from Cornwall Film Festival - Gala Screening with Director Carol Morley & Mark Kermode talk
Typist Artist Pirate King | Dir Carol Morley | 2022 | 1h 46 min | United Kingdom | Comedy / Drama | English | 12A
In Carol Morley's fifth feature, we follow troubled, misunderstood artist Audrey Amiss (played by Monica Dolan) and her psychatric nurse (Kelly Macdonald) on a fictionalised road trip to Sunderland, in a last-ditch effort to get Amiss' work exhibited, and reconnect with her sister Dorothy (Gina McKee).
The real-life Amiss trained as a painter at the Royal Academy during the 1950s. Even though her career sadly never gained much traction due to her struggles with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, as well as a lack of exposure, her work is immortalised in her very own archive at the Welcome Collection in London - of which Morely was…
Tickets
Seniors
£11.00
+£0.28 ticket service fee
Children, Students, YP 16-30
£9.50
+£0.24 ticket service fee
Adults
£14.00
+£0.35 ticket service fee
Total
£0.00