Strand Grabs Unique Downward Spiral Docu ‘The Arbor’

If you’d want to follow Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank with a future recommended viewing, I don’t think I’d be too off topic in suggesting Strand Releasing’s latest pick-up. Described by Eric Kohn as a “document of grief”, Clio Barnard’s The Arbor, is an innovative portrait of playwright Andrea Dunbar, who at the age of fifteen wrote a play that would be performed in NYC and it basically describes her experiences as a pregnant teenager with an abusive drunken father. Strand are setting the doc up for an April release next year. Described by our correspondent Eithan Weitz (who caught the film at Karlovy Vary this year) as “an exciting, smart, and original” documentary due to the technique that is employed, the doc film preemed at Tribeca earlier in the year.