Awards (click to collapse)
BAFTA Awards, 2002 – Nominated: BAFTA TV Award: Best New Director
Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia (2000) – Winner: City of Melbourne Award: Best Short Documentary
Carol Morely returns to Manchester, where in the early 1980s five years of her life were lost in an alcoholic haze. This is a brave, unflinching poetic retrieval of an era in which rediscovered friends, acquaintances, and enemies speak directly to the camera with frank and unadorned tales of Carol’s drunken, promiscuous behaviour, her insecurities and random acts of kindness. In Morley’s search for her lost self, conflicting memories and viewpoints weave in and out, revealing a portrait of the city, its pop culture and people. An admonition about the folly of alcohol driven excess and a must-see for anyone who has had one too many…


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