52 Films by Women Vol 3. 25. MARY GOES ROUND (Director: Molly McGlynn)
If you were to ask: ‘alcoholism and cancer – what do they mean to me?’ I would say ’2002’. That was the year I knew I was addicted to alcohol after my wife retreated into herself following the death of her mother from cancer and we were coping with the diagnosis of our young son (then aged five) of being on the autistic spectrum. There are things I cannot write because social media has a habit of biting one in the bum, as Australians say. Suffice to say, 2002 was my horror year. I carried on writing film reviews but I cannot remember anything I wrote. My cure, in 2007, was to take up running again, replacing one addiction with another. I spent a year preparing for the Edinburgh Marathon, which I ran in 2008 and 2009, though the product of that was plantar fasciitis, or a pain in one’s foot, a condition that I have to this day. Canadian writer-director Molly McGlynn’s feature debut, Mary Goes Round , deals with both alcoholism and cancer but not plantar fasciitis, because that wou...