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British actress Brenda Blethyn has built quite a reputation playing rather faded working-class women in an uneasy relationship with their families.
The template was set with her international breakthrough film, Secret and Lies, in which she played a woman coming to terms with the surprising revelation that she had given birth to a black daughter.
In the Australian film Clubland, directed by Cherie Nowlan, Blethyn is again struggling with motherhood, finding herself unwilling to let go possession of her son, Tim (Khan Chittenden).
As Jean Dwight, she is also trying to re-establish her career as a nightclub comedienne, playing the RSL clubs of Sydney with a tired routine that seems to have sprung directly from the music halls of her native England.
© The West Australian
