Trailer: Clio Barnard, The Arbor (2010)

– staggeringly moving ★★★★★ Time Out London – brilliantly realised, impossibly sad ★★★★ The Telegraph – a modernist, compassionate biopic ★★★★ the Guardian The Arbor tells the true story of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar (writer of The Arbor, Rita, Sue and Bob Too) and her daughter Lorraine. A captivating and revelatory piece of cinema; the film combines reenactments and monologues of recorded interviews with the individuals from Dunbar’s life, alongside archival footage, and scenes of The Arbor being reenacted in front of an unassuming crowd of residents who years from the writing of the play, now live in the play’s namesake ‘The Arbor’. Find out more: --- Image: Production still of Girl (Natalie Gavin) in a scene from Andrea Dunbar’s play, ‘The Arbor’, performed on Brafferton Arbor. Photograph: Nick Wall