An article about Hamnet reminded Sean Kaye-Smith of the moving film The Other Side of the Underneath
Re Zoe Williams’ thought-provoking article (The crying game: what Hamnet’s grief-porn debate says about women, cinema – and enormous hawks, 16 January), the tensions between grief-art and grief-porn have been around for decades in British cinema, never more so than when Jane Arden’s The Other Side of the Underneath was released in 1973.
In addition to being the only British feature film to be directed by a woman in the whole of the 1970s, this powerful and harrowing work openly declared its theme to be “women’s pain”, and anyone who has seen the film would strongly affirm that it lives up to its brief. There is still nothing else like it, for the rawness of its emotions and the haunting quality of its visuals. Continue reading…
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