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Onwards and Outwards: Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Q&A with director Beeban Kidron
5 Sep 2015
As part of the Onwards & Outwards film season looking at the best in independent British cinema made by women, director Beeban Kidron speaks about her 1990 film Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit.
As part of the Onwards & Outwards film season looking at the best in independent British cinema made by women, director Beeban Kidron speaks about her 1990 film Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit.
The story of a young girl adopted by fanatical working-class evangelists in the North of England in the 1960s, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit won two BAFTAS in 1990: Best Drama and Best Actress (Geraldine McEwen), as well as the Prix d’argent at Cannes. In author Jeanette Winterson’s words, "when the BBC made Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit 20 years ago, we had to run it after the watershed hour of 9pm, even though it had only one very mild sex scene. And there was really nothing on TV, before Oranges that showed gay women as anything but ugly, desperate, confused, lonely, addicted, alcoholic, predatory, or going through a phase."
