A Want in Her

When her mother Nuala goes missing, Myrid Carten returns from London to her hometown in rural Ireland. There, the young artist and filmmaker discovers a familiar trail of reckless self-destruction. Myrid interweaves documentation of her confrontations with Nuala – once a social worker, but psychologically undone by her own mother’s death – and handycam footage of her childhood. The result is an engrossing mother-daughter portrait, rich with raw and painful detail. Myrid’s deep feelings of abandonment suffuse the atmospheric images, while her mother's renewed pleas for her to stay intensify the guilt and responsibility that keep her bound to the past. Through the fog of addiction and mental illness, however, an enduring love glimmers.

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