Poppy Shakespeare
Reviews
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For all of its sense of the tragic, and its deep pessimism about institutional structures, it is also full of human warmth, wit, survivor's gallows humour and deep irony and, therefore, devoid of the kind of self-importance that usually sinks polemical art. N is not a political mouthpiece, but one of the many dispossessed, and this film aims to give her an authentic voice. In all of this we were hugely assisted by some of the most gifted technicians and actors in the UK. And we are all indebted to the producers and to Channel 4, for daring to make the kind of film that (almost) doesn't get made any more.
The Guardian
