daily stream: a house that love builds (with a lot of help)
2020’s *Herself* is on Prime in the US, on Curzon Home Cinema in the UK
Mamma Mia! director Phyllida Lloyd’s third feature film (she also directed Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady) is an absolute treasure of a social-justice drama. In 2020’s Herself, cowriter and star Clare Dunne turns in a powerhouse performance as a single mom in Dublin trying to escape her abusive ex and make a nicer life for her small daughters. With the waiting list for social housing years long, she decides to take matters into her own hands — literally — to build her own house… a job that requires she also build a new bespoke family made up of friends and neighbors. This is a wonderfully humanist story about kindness and community, pride and accomplishment. We often talk about movies being uplifting, but here’s a movie about lifting yourself up.
US: stream on Prime
UK: rent on Curzon Home Cinema; rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
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