Blue Black Permanent
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1h 25m
Directed by Margaret Tait | 86 mins | 1992
While making "Aftersun" (2022), Charlotte Wells discovered a kindred spirit in her compatriot Margaret Tait: the sole feature by the medical doctor turned poet and filmmaker, "Blue Black Permanent"—in fact the first by a Scotswoman, made towards the end of Tait’s richly variegated life in the arts—is a vividly enigmatic meditation on a mother-daughter relationship punctuated by tragedy.
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