In 2007, Gillian Wearing placed an advert – in newspapers, online, in job centers, and elsewhere. It read: "Would you like to be in a film? You can play yourself or a fictional character. Call Gillian." Of the hundreds of people who replied, seven – chosen through an extended process of auditions, interviews, and workshops – ended up appearing in Self Made. Of those seven, five in particular use the acting technique known as Method to delve into their memories, impulses, anxieties, fears, fantasies, and inner resources to create a series of individual performance vignettes, their personal 'end scenes', that reveal with particular intensity and clarity who they really are deep down – or who, in another version of their lives, they might easily have been.
Self Made has generally received positive reviews.
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Self Made was released in 2011 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 8 reviews, giving Self Made (2011) an average rating of 71%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 60% and users giving an average score of 59%.
With a score of 71%, Self Made is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2011, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2011 with similar scores include films like Bridesmaids, Detachment and Super 8.
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