Surveillance first published by Little White Lies At the core of Surveillance is Stephanie (Ryan Simpkins), an eight-year-old girl who has witnessed “some things children shouldn’t see”, and who has been ignored ever since by every adult she has tried to tell. She might even, at a stretch, be regarded as a figure for the…
First published by Little White Lies Jennifer Lynch’s Chained begins where her previous psycho-pulp Surveillance ended: with a child being damaged, perhaps irreparably, by forced exposure to the psychopathic behaviour of adults. After seeing an illicit horror film together, nine-year-old Tim (Evan Bird) and his mother Sarah (Julia Ormond) take a cab home – but…
Chained first appeared in Sight & Sound, March 2013 Review: Legacies sometimes have to be borne like shackles. Though a talented director in her own right, Jennifer Lynch’s very surname conjures a cinematic pedigree that threatens to overshadow her own individual achievements. To put it starkly, when a film is described as ‘Lynchian’, it is…
The genuinely lovely Jennifer Lynch sets the story straight on her filmic interest in child abuse and her various troubled productions in this interview for Little White Lies. Be warned that towards the end there is something of a spoiler about her new film CHAINED, out on limited theatrical release from 1 February, and on…