Tish

2023

Documentary

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 11 reviews
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 210 210

Plot summary

A working-class photographer captures the impact of Thatcherism on the north of England but is unable to escape the poverty and inequality she exposed.

Director

Paul Sng Photo
Paul Sng

Top cast

Maxine Peake Photo
Maxine Peake as Tish Murtha
Shin-Fei Chen Photo
Shin-Fei Chen as Tish Murtha
Ella Murtha Photo
Ella Murtha as Self
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832.86 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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25 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 17
1.67 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 28

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by imdb-92083 9 / 10

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Reviewed by ianharrison747 10 / 10

I'm really sorry....

I didn't know. This draw dropping moment. A feeling of disbelief. Viewing Rembrandts etchings or Van Gogh's drawings. They all felt like you were there. Tish was on par. She was in the battlefield like McCullin and Kilip, never parachuted in to do a job. She was there. The photos were black and white but the blood was still red. Her signing on at the age of 56 was a frightening indication of the lack of respect for art and ability.Passion. Art or music without passion is nothing and irrelevant. Her black and white photos in the documentary are sometimes genius. The subject is often so unattractive - poverty, struggle, redundancy, deprivation and unemployment with new technology threatening permanency. Hats off to the BBC and Tish's daughter Ella for exposure at last. It makes me feel ashamed.
Reviewed by daveyjohns 10 / 10

The truth will find away

Authentic and real Tish is a love letter from a daughter to her mother. But also a love letter to those forgotten and left on the scrapheap. The images she capture with her Olympus camera, that now hang in the Tate modern. Capture the working class world of the 70s and 80s Northeast like no other. Because Tish was born from the very soul of the places and people she photographed. From Capturing the soullessness of the phenomenally popular juvenile jazz bands of the time, regimented "FUN" for the working class kids! To the honesty and hope of the youth that was sadly betrayed by those in power.There's a heartbreakingly moving moment where Tish's Daughter, Ella is captured as a child singing on an old recording made on a tape machine.Twinkle Twinkle little star. The sound of a child's honestly, hope and innocent joy is there to hear. Tish is a beautifully made documentary.
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