Clio Barnard Interview

The acclaimed director of The Selfish Giant discusses her approach to film, fiction and first-time actors…

With The Selfish Giant, Clio Barnard raised the stakes. Her first fictional feature stunned and seared itself into the memory, building on the great promise of her only other cinematic work, The Arbor. Here she addresses 'authenticity', the inspiration for her work and how children who are criminalised and marginalised can, ultimately, be idealised too.