52 Films by Women Vol 8. 42. Reawakening (Director: Virginia Gilbert)
Pictured : Mary ( Juliet Stevenson ) and a mysterious stranger ( Erin Doherty ) as viewed by John ( Jared Harris , not shown) in a scene from the fractured family drama, 'Reawakening ', a British film written and directed by Virginia Gilbert . Still courtesy of Eclipse Pictures (Ireland), Signature Entertainment (UK) To lose a child. To experience your child, aged fourteen, run away from home, never to return. To appeal to the media – the world – and hear nothing. To sit at home, blaming, fretting, focussing on one thing. To grieve without a body. To flinch at sympathy. To watch the bills mount up. To return to work, unwillingly. To shift focus but always revert to that central wrong. To repeat the question: why? To pretend - at work, at home, living with the fog of distraction and trauma. To carry on. Reawakening , British writer-director Virginia Gilbert’s second feature – her first was A Long Way from Home starring James Fox and Brenda Fricker released in 2013 – explore...