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By Paul W (1,226) on 10 Dec 2011

The Arbor is an engrossing,hypnotic, creative documentary that tells the story of the playwright Andrea Dunbar, who grew up in a poverty-stricken…

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By Ollie W (539) on 09 Oct 2011

An incredible, innovative documentary that is as artistic and subversive as it is tragic and moving…

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By Jonathan B (2,317) on 27 Sep 2011

Brilliant, highly original and beautifully shot piece of documentary film making that is well crafted by director Clio Barnard and her team…

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By Kirk E (163) on 20 Sep 2011

A truly unique biopic built around original audio interviews and lip-synching actors. Unlike anything I've ever seen, and quite moving at points…

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By Lee M (4,001) on 18 Sep 2011

For the morbidly curious, it's mesmerizing. But it's also a singularly watchable story for the strange, and strangely fitting, way in which it's told…

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By Walter M (1,360) on 04 Sep 2011

I'll bet you've never seen a documentary quite like The Arbor…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 11 Jul 2011

The format suggests such films as Synechdoche, New York or American Splendor, but Barnard has gone beyond them, also instilling a theatrical…

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By Ed Whitfield (493) for What Culture (594) on 05 Jul 2011

It's an even handed and responsible profile that recognises the playwright's important contribution to British theatre without turning away…

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By John T (2,122) on 15 Jun 2011

The Arbor is a very interesting movie…

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By Justin M (1,525) on 04 Jun 2011

Sort of documentary with lip-syncing actors over real voices, scenes played out on a council estate and news clips about the life and times…

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By Rob L (734) on 04 Jun 2011

A moving successor to the working class realist cinema of Terence Davies and others, this depiction of the brief life of the playwright Andrea…

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By Vernon Francis V (1) on 06 May 2011

This innovative and well crafted documentary about the life and work of british playwright Andrea Dunbar and the affect of her legacy on her…

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By Matthew Nestel (36) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 02 May 2011

Andrea Dunbar's portrait here is unforgiving; comparable to Joan Crawford in Mommy Dearest or Tobias Wolff's brass-knuckled dad in This Boy's Life…

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By Alfin N (428) on 01 May 2011

Bad parenting is not about blaming the kids or blaming the parents. It's about not teaching a better way of living…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 01 May 2011

Barnard's boldest move is to unveil the irresponsible chaos of the playwright's private life, and to make us wonder if the art was worth the…

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By Mark C (1,395) on 29 Apr 2011

Interestingly filmed! Genre busting. Play within play. Part documentary style, part tragically sad drama…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 28 Apr 2011

From the sublimely ridiculous to the simply sublime, The Arbor exists at the intersection of life and art, reality and performance, documentary…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 26 Apr 2011

It helps that the actors' faces are so mesmerizing, particularly Manjinder Virk as Lorraine…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for New York Times (5,786) on 26 Apr 2011

Like a Ken Loach drama stripped to bare bones, The Arbor springs to life in the bright bitterness of Dunbar's prose, showcased in alfresco…

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By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Apr 2011

Barnard makes the psychological mayhem Dunbar endured and inflicted tangible…

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