The story focuses on a teenage girl who, while out with her boyfriend, encounters a stray dog. Three years later, Arnold made another short, called Dog, that not only explores the themes of death, but also how such events can change people.
Taking the story into unconventional territory allowed Arnold’s short to standout from some of the other young filmmakers that were coming out in Britain at the time. Enlisting the services of Stephen McGann and Lynda Steadman to play the couple dealing with the loss of a child, Arnold used the film as an exploration of how a woman copes with death. In 1998, Arnold made her first short entitled Milk that explored the aftermath of a miscarriage on a husband and wife. 73 was coming to an end, Arnold decided to retire from acting and enrolled to study directing at Los Angeles’ AFI Conservatory. She was also a dancer on Top of the Pops. After leaving high school at age 16 to pursue an acting career, and leaving for London two years later, Arnold got a job hosting the British children TV show No. Observing her mother raise four children by herself had a profound impact on the young Arnold. Though Arnold started out her career as an actress and TV presenter, her desire to create her own stories has yielded an already impressive collection of shorts and feature films and she has another feature film in development.īorn in Dartford, Kent in England, to a teenage mother, Arnold is the eldest of four children. Similar to her contemporary Lynn Ramsey, Arnold has provided a much needed female voice to the cinematic landscape in the UK. One of the new voices to emerge from Britain, Andrea Arnold is a unique talent who combines the realism of Ken Loach with an aesthetic akin to the Dogme 95 movement of the late 1990s.
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