Make Up
Directed byClaire Oakley
Produced byEmily Morgan
Edited bySacha Szwarc[1]
Music byBen Salisbury
Production
company
Quiddity Films
Release date
  • October 4, 2019 (2019-10-04) (London)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Make Up is a 2019 British psychological thriller film, written and directed by Claire Oakley.[2][3][4][5] It is Oakley's debut feature, set in a wintry caravan park in St Ives, Cornwall.[6] As of 2022, the film had received a 98% score on review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.[7]

Plot

Ruth moves to a caravan park in Cornwall to live with her boyfriend Tom. There she meets Jade and starts to grow closer to her.[8]

Cast

Release

Make Up was screened on October 4, 2019 at the London Film Festival.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Make Up: A surreal nightmare vision of Cornwall caravan gothic". The Irish Times.
  2. ^ Bugbee, Teo (November 12, 2020). "'Make Up' Review: Self-Discovery, an Adolescent Horror". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Collin, Robbie (July 30, 2020). "Make Up review: this sexy, eerie Cornish creeper is the best British film of 2020 so far". The Daily Telegraph.
  4. ^ "Make Up — goosebumps and tingles in this Cornwall-set film". Financial Times. July 29, 2020.
  5. ^ "Review: A searching teen gets under the concealer in 'Make Up'". Los Angeles Times. November 10, 2020.
  6. ^ "Make Up review – wintry chills in a spooky seaside thriller | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week". The Guardian. July 30, 2020.
  7. ^ "Make Up". Rotten Tomatoes.
  8. ^ Harrison, Rebecca (4 November 2020). "Make Up stirs up a thrillingly queer tangle in a Cornish campsite". Sight and Sound. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  9. ^ Harvey, Mary-Catherine (8 October 2019). "Make Up". The Up Coming. Retrieved April 23, 2023.

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