Deborah Ross

An extraordinary debut: Make Up reviewed

Simple plot, complex emotions, and it's brilliantly acted by Molly Windsor and compellingly directed by Claire Oakley

A brilliant, naturalistic actress: Molly Windsor as Ruth in Claire Oakley’s extraordinary debut, Make Up. 
issue 01 August 2020

Make Up is the first full-length film from writer–director Claire Oakley, set in an out-of-season holiday park on the Cornish coast where the wind blows, waves crash, rain lashes and gulls screech so you know it’s not a rom-com (foxes shriek in the night too). But while it’s easy to say what it isn’t, it’s harder to say what it is.

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