Pond Life - Sally Bayley - diskuze

In a digital age, Pond Life asks who will record the lives that do not appear on screen. Enter Edith Cull, unmarried and working as an occasional cover teacher. Edith's life lacks biography. Her chief pleasure and source of excitement is the cinema. Encouraged by on-screen fantasies, Edith attaches herself to the local chemist, the stalwart Mr. Jarvis. In the same town lives Dorothy Fortescue married to the noble Henry. Behind her manor walls, Dorothy lives out another form of spectral existence. As lady of the manor, Dorothy summons 'Pond Man' who arrives to build her a garden pond; and upon the surface of her pond Dorothy projects the all the scenery of her boredom and grief. The lives of these two women reflect and illuminate one another and in a crucial moment of misreading their lives intertwine
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