Tina Goes Shopping (1999)
Penny Woolcock was born in Argentina and raised in a British community.
In 1967, she performed in a play called 'Liberty and other Intoxications'
which was about the dictatorship in Argentina.
She was briefly arrested as a result.
Her parents wanted to send her to Europe for safety.
instead she fled to Spain with a man from the theatre group
and had a baby in Barcelona.
In 1970, she moved to England as a single mother.
She did factory work and other jobs.
In her thirties, she enrolled in a filmmakers' workshop,
borrowed some film-making equipment
and sold the resulting feature to the BBC.
Tina Goes Shopping is a masterpiece.
Filmed in Leeds, it's the first part of Penny Woolcock's 'Tina Trilogy'
which used residents of local housing estates as the actors
giving it a unique and unequalled realism.
It's one of my all-time favourites and it resonates strongly
with some of my own experiences growing up in the north of England.
I identify with the characters.
Don is my hero!
regards
Titus
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