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Spite Your Face
Spite Your Face

Spite Your Face

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Fantasy

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Simultaneously sumptuous and gorgeous, garish and grim, this is a re-working of Pinocchio for the neo-liberal era. Rachel Maclean’s dark fairytale, which represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2017, depicts a brash and baroque binary world of poverty and riches where the prospect of easy wealth tempts even good boys like Pic into bad ways. But if everyone believes the lie, what’s the problem?

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Budget

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Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

37 mins

Rating

10/10

Release Date

13 May 2017

Country

United Kingdom

Cast

Rachel Maclean

Rachel Maclean

Chiara D'Anna

Chiara D'Anna

Steven McNicoll

Steven McNicoll

Toby Ungleson

Toby Ungleson

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