Mothering Sunday

From the producers of Carol (LIFF 2015 closing film), adapted from Graham Swift’s novel by Alice Birch (Lady Macbeth - LIFF 2016), and directed by Eva Husson (Girls of the Sun - LIFF 2018), Mothering Sunday is a story of grief, responsibility, and secret love in post-WWI England. On Mother’s Day in 1924, housemaid Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone and spends an afternoon of abandon with her secret lover Paul (Josh O’Connor). But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever.

‘Mothering Sunday seemed to have, somehow, found its way to me, and there it was, this wonderful screenplay, speaking to me, playing a frequency that opened me up like only the most honest works of art do. I have never felt so at home with another writer’s script, and suddenly, that script, written by Alice Birch, seemed to whisper in my ear. It was a culmination of everything that I am obsessed with in life: writing, sex, and pure cinema. The opportunity to bring to the big screen the story of a ‘Doris Lessingesque’ writer. To explore the fragility and power of sex, love and the impact it has on a creative female artist.’

Eva Husson, Director