Beryl Collection

Number of Movies: 4

Overview

A series of animated short films about the adventures of a middle-aged Welsh everywoman.

Featured Cast

Menna Trussler

Beryl (voice)

Brendan Charleson

Ifor / Colin / Lenin / Interviewer (voice)

Joanna Quinn

Beverly (voice)

Mali Ann Rees

Mum / Edie (voice)

Featured Crew

4 Movies

Girls Night Out

May 31, 1988

When a housewife's girlfriends take her to a male strip club for her birthday, she brings back more than memories.

Body Beautiful

March 10, 1991

A heavyset woman who keeps being harassed by her aerobics instructor and her attempts to get even with him on a Body Beautiful contest.

Beryl acquires a new Digi Video camera and becomes obsessed with the art of filmmaking, using it to articulate her desires, dreams and thoughts in a video diary. As “cineaste par excellence” she agrees to film her friend’s wedding, seizing the opportunity to “strut her stuff filmically” with disastrous and often hilarious results.

Affairs of the Art

January 29, 2021

Look out: Beryl's back. With Affairs of the Art, British animator Joanna Quinn recounts another gloriously unhinged chapter in the adventures of Beryl, the comic everywoman she unleashed upon the world with her debut film, Girls' Night Out, which took home three major awards from Annecy in 1987.

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