Spite Your Face
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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?
Status: Released
Released Date: 2017-05-13
Runtime: 37 mins
Director: Rachel Maclean
Writer: Rachel Maclean
Spoken language: English
Genres: Fantasy
Original title: Spite Your Face
Production Companies: Barry Crerar
Production Countries: United Kingdom
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