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- Now here is "Hideous Kinky,'' based on an autobiographical novel by Esther Freud, whose father is the British painter Lucien Freud.
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Hideous Kinky is a 1998 drama film directed by Scottish director Gillies MacKinnon. Based on Esther Freud 's semi-autobiographical 1992 novel of the same name, it follows a young English mother who moves from London to Morocco with her two young daughters in the early 1970s.
- £3.2 million
- Ann Scott
- John E. Keane
- 2 October 1998
Apr 23, 1999 · Now here is "Hideous Kinky,'' based on an autobiographical novel by Esther Freud, whose father is the British painter Lucien Freud. I'm not sure how much of the story is based on fact, but presumably the feelings are accurately reflected, as when a child tells her hippie mother: "I don't need another adventure, Mom!
24796175. Hideous Kinky is an autobiographical novel by Esther Freud, daughter of British painter Lucian Freud and Bernardine Coverley and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. It depicts the author's unconventional childhood in Morocco with her mother and her elder sister, Bea. In 1998, a film adaptation was released.
- 192 pp
- Esther Freud
- 30 January 1992
- Hamish Hamilton
Apr 16, 1999 · Julia (Kate Winslet) moves from London to Morocco with his young daughters Bea and Lucy. The girls' father has another woman in London. They struggle waiting for the father's check to come in. Julia falls for acrobat street performer Bilal (Saïd Taghmaoui). She goes to study in Algiers with Sufi mystic Ben Said.
- (6.8K)
- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Gillies MacKinnon
- 1999-04-16
Jun 5, 2021 · Esther Freud on Hideous Kinky: ‘Memories came back to me, humorous and chilling’ This article is more than 2 years old The writer was a struggling actor when she began to write about her early ...
- Esther Freud
As their carefree mother relies on good fortune and new boyfriends for financial support, the girls find surrogate father figures in the kindly con artist Bilal (Saïd Taghmaoui) and the dapper...
- (53)
- Drama
- R
HIDEOUS KINKY is the story of an English woman, named Julia played by Kate Winslet, who seeks "truth" in the exotic culture of Marrakech, Morocco in 1972. Julia's troubles include supporting two younger daughters, with scant support from her former lover, their father, and no ethical framework to guide her search.
