Of course, it’s not as easy as all that, though Herself focuses more on can-do spirit than it does on kitchen-sink hardship. 'Herself' isn’t specifically a COVID-related film, but it speaks to an era in which many people are having to do a lot with a little Amazon Sandra doesn’t just set out to build a house she practically wills it into being. She investigates the possibility of building her own home for 35,000 euros, and one of her employers, the seemingly crotchety yet enormously kind Peggy (Harriet Walter), comes through with an offer of some land and a loan. Though she’s working two jobs and receiving some child support, she and her daughters still find themselves essentially homeless: as they wait for public housing, they’re squeezed into a small room in an airport hotel, far from the girls’ school, and Sandra yearns to give them more. And even though Herself-directed by Phyllida Lloyd, and written by Malcolm Campbell and the movie’s star, Clare Dunne-isn’t specifically a COVID-related film, it speaks to an era in which many people are having to do a lot with a little.ĭunne plays Sandra, the Dublin mother of two smart, cute-as-hell little girls (Ruby Rose O’Hara and Molly McCann) who’s struggling to separate from her abusive partner, and the girls’ father, Gary (Ian Lloyd Anderson). ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s never a bad time for movies about women pulling themselves out of bad situations.
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