
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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