Released:
2018-08-02

Overview:
Balls takes as its starting point Heathcliff, the foundling character central to Wuthering Heights, and explores links between the Foundling Hospital story and the much-loved novel by Brontë. Cole’s film is inspired by two separate but intertwined stories; the real lives of desperate women and the babies they gave up to the care of the Foundling Hospital, which are meticulously documented in the Hospital’s archives; and Heathcliff, the foundling antihero in Wuthering Heights. Set in modern day Liverpool, the film shines a light on how the lives of women, celebrated or unknown, were so circumscribed by society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and considers the extent to which progress has been made.

Director:
Lily Cole

Runtime:
0h 12min

Genre:

• Cast:
• 
  Tia Bannon
  as
  Peggy
• 
  Gillian Bevan
  as
  Jean
• 
  Sarah Gadon
  as
  Mary Ann
• 
  John Sessions
  as
  Brownlow