Tagged on to the celebrated Brontë Sister trio was their far less famous brother Branwell. The mischievous director Jim Finn offers us a restitution of Branwell’s destiny using supposedly recovered damaged snippets of silent film and extracts of his letters to pad out this unreliable biography full of doubts - be they literary, sentimental, sexual, financial or, eventually, health-related. (JPR)
The Drunkard’s Lament, The Drunkard’s Lament
Jim Finn
USA, UK, 2018, Black and white, 41’
French Premiere
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- Original version:English.
- Editing:Jim Finn.
- Sound:Jesse Stiles.
- With:Linda Montano, Isabella Pinheiro, Paul Tarragó, Murray Gordon.
- Production:Jim Finn.