Next Tuesday evening, the Ventnor Film Society will be screening this brilliant debut feature from first-time feature director Andrea Arnold.
In it, she creates a tough and superbly intelligent surveillance thriller, in which Jackie watches a bank of screens in what might be a control room on an orbiting satellite.
In fact, it’s Glasgow, 2006, and she’s a CCTV operative, keeping an eye, multiple eyes, on a seedy area of the city amongst the high-rise estates.
Her professional judgment goes out the window when she spies Clyde, an ex-con with whom she has a tragic connection.
UK/Denmark 2006 113mins Cert 18
Dir: Andrea Arnold
Cast: Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Natalie Press
Venue: Ventnor Winter Gardens
Curtains up: at 7.30pm
Tickets: £4.50 (£3.50 conc) or buy a season pass for all seven films for £26.25 (£17.50)
