Cinephiliac
As a teenager,Ann’s movie preferences were more Three Colours:Blue than Pretty Woman. She maintained such standards even after the birth of her daughters decades later. Not on her life would she accompany them to the cinema to see juvenile fare like Tangled or Frozen. Instead,she’d drag them along to Soviet arthouse films about embattled wheat farmers,or Icelandic indie flicks in which burly fishermen wore heavy knits and heavier brows. Once,she even took them to a retrospective featuring David Lynch’s The Elephant Man. To be fair,it made a bigger impression on them than Despicable Me. Words by Paul Connolly. Illustration by Jim Pavlidis.