The More You Ignore Me
It is the life of a small family in rural England. The story begins with Gina, a young mother, who undermines her efforts to be an ideal mother and a wife who bears much. Due to the deterioration of her mental health, she then developed an obsession with the local weatherman, resulting in her entry into the psychiatric hospital. Over the years, when she grows up, her daughter Alice is struggling to deal with her mother who is taking intensive treatment every day but there will be chaos because of re-contacting.
20 October 1967, Middlesbrough, England, UK
26 September 1939, Bispham, Blackpool, England, UK
3 June 1957, Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK
14 January 1964, York, England, UK
7 October 1978, Rochford, Essex, England, UK
1970, Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
July 06, 2018
It is a bit rough around the edges at times, with some pretty broad dramatic effects, but the narrative motor keeps humming and the sheer force of sympathy drives it along.
July 04, 2018
The way it interrogates and eventually embraces an unconventional female character and upends assumptions regarding mental illness is something to be celebrated.
July 09, 2018
Hunt is hugely watchable in the central role and Brand, adapting from her own novel, should be congratulated for stubbornly avoiding narrative convention.
July 05, 2018
An appealing, bittersweetly funny tale of a Morrissey-mad teenage girl whose life is regularly derailed by her mother's worsening mental state.
July 09, 2018
Keith English's film of Jo Brand's novel has a typical Brit-flick kind of hokiness, and this limits the poignancy of the heroine's relationship with her mother.
