Film
Cinema Rediscovered: Make Me Up
- Director
- Rachel Maclean
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 85 mins
To quote the unimprovable official synopsis: “Siri wakes to find herself trapped inside a brutalist candy-coloured dreamhouse. Despite the cutesy decor, the place is far from benign, and she and her inmates are encouraged to compete for survival while being watched over by surveillance cameras, 24/7.
Presiding over the group is an authoritarian diva who speaks entirely with the voice of Kenneth Clark from the 1960s BBC series Civilisation. As she forces the women to go head-to-head in a series of demeaning tasks, Siri, with the help of fellow inmate Alexa, starts subverting the rules and soon reveals the sinister truth that underpins their world.”
Premiered at the London Film Festival, multimedia artist Rachel Maclean‘s film sets out to “take a satirical look at the contradictory pressures faced by women today. It examines how television and social media can be fun and expressive spaces to explore identity, but simultaneously a gilded prison that encourages women to conform to strict beauty ideals.”
Make Me Up is back on screen as part of Cinema Rediscovered‘s appetising Gluttony, Decadence and Resistance season.
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