The Greenaway Alphabet

Little dickens is a rascal. Meanwhile, a little Dickens can be associated with as much Dickens as you could handle, which, in Saskia Boddeke's documentary, is provided by 16-year-old Pip (in reality Zoë Greenaway), who is entering adulthood during the course of conversations with her father. So, in a nutshell, a Bildungsroman, except in the guise of her asking her father questions from the alphabet of creative philosophy? Has the master artist himself fallen into the trap of classification? This guide for young people through Greenaway's ever-expanding universe could suggest such an interpretation if not for the lightheartedness of the story, which is filled with arranged conversations between father and daughter, sharing their passion for art, views on creativity and a drawing lesson. She keeps it with her in times of crisis. Then he gets a reprimand: Dad, please turn off the director's commentary. Accustomed to the British director's films, we will search for intertextual games, recognizing in Greenaway Abel Magwitch dressed up as an astonishing Miss Havisham. Unnecessarily. The film is a warm chat about the director's husband, shown from a teenager's perspective, closer to Michaël Dudok de Wit's Father and Daughter than Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers. It couldn't be otherwise. Pip refutes his arguments perfectly.