From kitchens, living rooms, and hallways across the Irish midlands, His & Hers delightfully combines observation and charm to tell a 90-year-old love story through the voices of 70 women. This intimate gender and cultural snapshot explores a woman’s relationships with the men in her life—father, boyfriend, husband, son. Following sequentially from little girl to old woman, each character portrait is woven with the others into one perfectly crafted cinematic quilt. His & Hers is an enchanting and affectionate appreciation for woman in all her versatility. Award winning short film director Ken Wardrop (Undressing My Mother, The Herd) has applied his signature style, marking an accomplished feature debut.
Film Crew
- : Ken Wardrop
- : Kate McCullough
- : Michael Lavelle
- : Ken Wardrop
- : Denis Clohessy
- : Andrew Freedman
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- Color
- English
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An enchanting portrait of Irish women as they share in a frank, funny and gracious story of their relationships with men from childhood to old age.-
Rarely have the odd and the ordinary combined to such beguiling effect. Winner of a small hatful of prizes over the last year, Ken Wardrop’s debut feature proudly defies categorisation.Comprising a large number of conversations with ordinary (but remarkable) Irish women, His & Hers certainly satisfies most lucid definitions of a documentary. Listen closely and you will, however, detect a meta-narrative emerging from the cluster of monologues.Each woman describes her own circumstances, but she also unconsciously contributes to the portrait of a composite personality. Wardrop admits that he intended the film as a tribute to his mother, but an engaging class of covert fiction is also under way. The result is a near-perfect act of cinematic sleight of hand: a beautiful tale told apparently by accident. No wonder His & Hers is the most lauded Irish film since Hunger.
Donald Clarke, The Irish Times -
A delightful, disarming documentary…orchestral…deceptively moving …rigorously and remarkably cinematic
John Anderson, Variety
