A Little Bit of a Monster: On Andrea Arnold
David Trotter, 22 September 2022
Andrea Arnold is best known as a director of films about young working-class women determined to get some joy out of a life that has been shaped by the needs and desires of others (not all of them men). By the time we meet these women, it’s generally too late for introductions. Someone, it seems, has gone ballistic. The films duly drop us in mid-rampage. People don’t just leave...