
The Unpolished
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Release Date: 12/07/2010
Pia Marais' award-winng film is one of the most startling and assured feature debuts of recent years. Stevie, a wild but fiercely-intelligent 14-year old girl at the emotional heart of the film, must cope with the instabilities of her hippy parents. When they move to a small town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents escape their responsibilities, spending their days high, hooking up deals and filling the house with hangers-on, Stevie tries to make an impression on her new schoolmates, spreading stories of an imaginary and ideally-conventional homelife. An unblinking study of a girl caught up in a complicated adult world, THE UNPOLISHED also presents an ambivalent image of the fall-out from a counter-culture gone bad. What shines through is the resourcefulness of a girl who deserves, and is determined to get, something better, as Stevie makes the real journey towards maturity and independence that her parents ought to have made years ago. THE UNPOLISHED is humanist filmmaking of the highest order.