A searching study of suburban futility. Shows in painstaking and intricate detail the chilling, deadening aimlessness of an unmarried woman’s existence - an existence divided between the exhausting monotony of machine-minding and the nervous strain of caring for her stolid, vacant, fractious parents. The routine is broken by a relative’s telephone call wanting to pay a visit and introduce his fiancee. For Alice the natural behaviour of the young couple is a revelation, bringing home to her, her own desperate situation and the implacable passage of time. Cast includes: Alice Spaul, Eunice Phelps, George Wood.
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ACMI Identifier
309227
Language
English
Subject categories
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Social isolation
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Women - Social conditions
Experimental → Experimental films - Great Britain
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Social isolation
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Boredom
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)