Film

The Ponds

Director
Samuel Smith, Patrick McLennan
Certificate
12A
Running Time
76 mins

A gentle, straightforward documentary portrait of the bathing ponds of Hampstead Heath and the people of all ages and backgrounds who use them, recorded over a period of 12 months.

“In the nicest possible way, this gentle and forthright film is a kind of home movie, almost a series of hyperlocal video-diary entries, full of uncomplicated happiness in a way that most documentaries aren’t,” enthused The Guardian. Note that this is an Ourscreen screening. Go here for tickets.

By robin askew, Friday, Feb 15 2019

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