Spite Your Face (2017)

Simultaneously sumptuous and gorgeous, garish and grim, this is a re-working of Pinocchio for the neo-liberal era. Rachel Maclean’s dark fairytale, which represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2017, depicts a brash and baroque binary world of poverty and riches where the prospect of easy wealth tempts even good boys like Pic into bad ways. But if everyone believes the lie, what’s the problem?

Released May 13, 2017 37 min None+

Genres: Fantasy, Short

Keywords: tmdb.woman-director, tmdb.dark-fairy-tale, mdblist.imdb-short

Production Companies: Barry Crerar

Country: United Kingdom
Production Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English