"The tensions between grief-art and grief-porn have been around for decades in British cinema, never more so than when Jane Arden's The Other Side of the Underneath was released in 1973. In addition to being the only British feature film to be directed by a woman in the whole of the 1970s, this powerful and harrowing work openly declared its theme to be women's pain, and anyone who has seen the film would strongly affirm that it lives up to its brief."
"There is still nothing else like it, for the rawness of its emotions and the haunting quality of its visuals. Locked away for years in the British Film Institute's vaults by Arden's creative associate Jack Bond, apparently traumatised by Arden's sudden death in 1982, the BFI bravely reissued the film in 2009. Unlike the makers of Hamnet and H is for Hawk, more recent viewers will have seen that Arden clearly did not have her sights set on Oscars, Baftas or any other mainstream prizes."
Tensions between grief-art and grief-porn have existed for decades within British cinema, reaching a peak with Jane Arden's 1973 film The Other Side of the Underneath. The film was the only British feature directed by a woman during the 1970s and centered explicitly on women's pain, delivering raw emotional intensity and haunting visuals. The film was withheld in the British Film Institute's vaults by Arden's creative associate Jack Bond after Arden's death and was reissued by the BFI in 2009. Arden's approach rejected mainstream prize-seeking ambitions, embodying an uncompromising, visceral strain of British art cinema.
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