Sonia Saville,
Annie Townsend,
Sandie Mahlia,
Charlene James,
Dennis Jobling
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Filmmakers Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy collaborate on this slow-burning mystery about a young loner named Helen (Annie Townsend), who becomes unexpectedly influenced by the persona of a missing gi... read more
DVD Release Date: September 28, 2010
Stats: 30 reviews
There are two directors listed on this. I'm wondering why it just didn't completely click for me. The film is well made by directors Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy, but that could be the reason.
The performances by Annie Townsend, Sandie Malia, Dennis Jobling and Sonia Saville... read more
Given its harrowing theme, Helen is a beautiful and restrained work. The camera quietly and slowly glides along Helen's world, laying bare the loneliness of a marginalised girl who is longing to find ... Full Review
Helen is an ambitious film, at once gripping and meditative, that touches with intelligence. Full Review
Much like an ambitious video-art installation, it's intriguing, inconclusive and not as challenging as it wants to be. Full Review
You couldn't call this audacious British debut a success; it's too arch, awkward and over-extended for that. But, oddly, it's those very same qualities which make it arresting to watch and which mark ... Full Review
With its unusual blending of the formal and the mysterious, the intimate and the impressionistic, Helen is a film of quiet but deadly power. Full Review
A moody British/Irish co-production, Helen is beautifully photographed and blessed with a wistfully atmospheric score, but it's a little bit creaky in some of the performances. Full Review
The final sequence, in which the directors boldly refuse any neat tying-up of their story, is bracingly intelligent. Lawlor and Molloy are real talents with a distinctive, if evolving, film-making lan... Full Review
Molloy and Lawlor's film, arrestingly well-composed and sound-designed, has a woozy suggestiveness that's nothing if not promising. Full Review
Mannered and over-contrived, it's a waste of a good idea despite the best efforts of Birkeland, whose elegant framing and rich composition allow the viewer to overlook the sheer joylessness of the piece. Full Review
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