Taking its title from a teenage disco this eagerly anticipated first feature from British artist Tracey Emin marks a new chapter in her body of autobiographical work... Drawing on her experiences growing up in Margate the film features six teenage girls - Frances Helen Katie Kieri Laura and Lizzie - who all have a tale to tell. One moment filled with bravado the next awkward and insecure. In a series of interviews to camera the Margate girls tell their individual stories. We
Taking its title from a teenage disco, this eagerly anticipated first feature from British artist Tracey Emin marks a new chapter in her body of autobiographical work...Drawing on her experiences growing up in Margate, the film features six teenage girls - Frances, Helen, Katie, Kieri, Laura and Lizzie - who all have a tale to tell. One moment filled with bravado, the next awkward and insecure. In a series of interviews to camera, the Margate girls tell their individual stories. We learn about Helen and her love of the Sphinx, a ride at the Dreamland funfair, where she snogged a lad who she is convinced has joined the foreign legion. Katie was raped at the end of her Christmas holiday - he broke me in, she says of the abuser. Kieri has a lovebite as a result of a strange sex game involving an older woman. And Lizzie takes the stories to a harrowing and dramatic culmination, involving a miscarriage and suicide.The film is hard-edged and disturbing, but it's also Emin's poem to Margate, mixing DV footage Super 8 film into lyrical montage. The natural beauty of the sea and the sunsets is linked with Margate's more manmade pleasures, underscored with a selection of 70s songs that formed the soundtrack to the artist's own adolescence.
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