Interviews

Silver Haze Interview: Sacha Polak – ‘Your first big love isn’t grey. It’s completely colourful’.

Dutch writer/director Sacha Polak made her English-language debut in 2019 with Dirty God, a critically acclaimed drama in which newcomer Vicky Knight played an acid-attack victim undergoing treatment for her burns. Having struck up a close friendship, the filmmaker and actor have collaborated again, this time with a story partly inspired by Knight’s own life. The plot follows Franky (Knight), a nurse who forms a close connection with her troubled patient Florence (Esmé Creed-Miles) after a suicide attempt. Silver Haze premiered at Berlin last year and is now set to be released in UK cinemas. I was fortunate to sit down with Sacha Polak to discuss the film…

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Film review: Silver Haze

After collaborating on her English-language debut Dirty God a few years ago, director Sacha Polak has called upon actor Vicky Knight again to star in his latest feature and has loosely based the story on her lead’s own experience. A British-Dutch co-production, romantic drama Silver Haze follows young nurse Franky (Knight) who is restlessly seeking answers after a housefire left her with severe burns 15 years earlier. At the hospital where she works, she meets troubled teen Florence (Esmé Creed-Miles) who is recovering from a suicide attempt. Scarred both physically and psychologically by their pasts, the pair embark upon a relationship and help one another through their trauma.

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