Tideland (film)

Tideland is a 2005 BritishCanadian science fiction fantasy film cowritten and directed by Terry Gilliam, an adaptation of Mitch Cullins novel of the same name. The film was shot in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and surrounding area in the fall and winter of 2004. The world premiere was at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, where the film was met with mixed response from both viewers and critics. After little interest from U.S. distributors, THINKFilm picked the film up for a U.S. release date in October 2006.

Tideland centers on an abandoned child, JelizaRose, and her solitary adventures during one summer in rural Texas while staying at a rundown farmhouse called What Rocks, and focuses on the increasingly dark, imaginative fantasy life the girl creates with the aid of dismembered Barbie doll heads that she often wears on her fingertips. With names such as Mystique, Sateen Lips, Baby Blonde and Glitter Gal, the doll heads not only engage in long conversations with JelizaRose, reflecting different aspects of the girls psyche, but also act as her companions while she explores the barren Texas landscape.After her mother chokes to death, JelizaRose and her father, Noah, flee to Noahs mothers home, a remote Texas farmhouse. Noah fears that with all the drugs in their house he will lose JelizaRose and be sent to prison, so he attempts to set it alight before they leave, although JelizaRose manages to stop him. They find the farmhouse abandoned, but they settle in anyway. Their first night there, Noah dies from a heroin overdose. For much of the rest of the film, Noahs corpse remains seated upright in a living room chair with sunglasses covering his eyes. As her father slowly begins to decompose, JelizaRose doesnt readily acknowledge his death because she has grown accustomed to him being unconscious for long periods at a time. Instead, she retreats deeper and deeper into her own mind, exploring the tall grass around the farmhouse, relying on her doll heads for friendship as an unconscious way of keeping herself from feeling too lonely and afraid. ........

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