Pavee Lackeen
Date: Tue 19 February 2008
Directed by Perry Ogden
Running time 88 mins, (cert 15)
This event is part of our Behind the Screen series
"Life is like a bank: what you put in you get out." So says a fortune teller in the opening scene of Pavee Lackeen. By rights, the world should lie open before the 10-year-old girl whose palm has just been read. However Young Winnie is an Irish Traveller, and the revelation in the following scene that her mother has just had to hock her own wedding ring for a small amount of cash suggests that Winnie may never have much capital to invest in the bank of life. And if Winnie's existence already seems precarious at the film's beginning, it is far more so by the end.
Played by a largely non-professional cast of Travellers, this is a funny and moving portrait of a community destined to remain in a trap of poverty, illiteracy and petty crime, engendered by uncaring bureaucracy and social exclusion.
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Event Type Film
Dedicated event Behind the Screen
Event venue Human Rights Action Centre, 17 - 25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA
Time 6.30pm
Price Free of charge
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