About a girl is a short film that was directed by Brian Percival, it won a BAFTA award for best short film and awards at the Raindance festival, the London film festival and Edinburgh film festival.
The film is about a young girl, who has quite a strong mancunian accent. We watch and listen to her as she walks through her estate and down a canal and we see flashbacks about her life, we are then later revealed that she was carrying a baby the whole time she was walking as we see her throw it in the canal. There is no mention of a baby throughout the film of about the babies father. The girl talks about random things, ranging from family life to dental floss.
The girl aspires to be a singer, like Britney spears and the film opens with her alone on a hill singing to Britney’s spears song stronger. We get the image that the girl is quite naïve throughout the film as she is so sure that she’s going to be famous but she is sometimes patronizing, for example she says “bless” about her dad.
We get the impression that she doesn’t have a great family life, as her mum and dad have broken up and her dad often ignores her when hes in her company.
The ending to this film is a very big shock, as the audience realize she has been carrying the baby down the whole canal in a plastic bag, and her mum didn’t know she was pregnant.
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