Typist Artist Pirate King (2022) (12A)
SCREENING AS PART OF FROM PAGE TO SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL
Tickets: Adult £6 | Cons & U25’s £5
Monica Dolan (unrecognisable from her role as sub-postmistress Jo Hamilton in Mr Bates vs The Post Office) delivers another standout performance as the chaotic, talented but forgotten artist Audrey Amiss. A Royal Academy graduate who spent her life in and out of mental institutions when not working as a civil service secretary, Amiss documented her life in sketchbooks and used cereal boxes whose vivid pages flash onto the screen, interwoven with an imagined cross-country journey sublimely captured by cinematographer Agnès Godard.
The film is a warm-hearted tribute from one of Britain’s most original filmmakers, Carol Morley (Out of Blue, The Falling, Dreams of a Life, The Alcohol Years). Her funny, touching road movie follows Audrey’s quixotic adventures as she heads North with her reluctant chauffeur, psychiatric nurse Sandra (Kelly MacDonald), encountering a dizzying series of scrapes and detours on her quest for artistic fulfilment.
EVENT SPONSORED BY
DIRECTOR | Carol Morley
STARS | Monica Dolan, Kelly Macdonald and Gina McKee
SOURCE TEXT | Audrey Amiss’s archive of diaries, letters and art
SCREENWRITER | Carol Morley
Reviews
“Monica Dolan’s performance as artist Amiss is amongst the best on film in 2023”
“Typist Artist Pirate King’ is by turns riotous and touching”