Clean (2022 film)

Clean is a 2022 documentary about the life of Sandra Pankhurst.[1][2] The film follows Pankhurst and her team of cleaners who clean crime scenes, places where people have committed suicide, and incidents of hoarding. It was directed by Lachlan Mcleod and released in Australia in June 2022. The film has screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival.[3]

Clean
Directed byLachlan Mcleod
Written byLachlan Mcleod
Produced byDavid Elliot-jones, Charlotte Wheaton
StarringSandra Pankhurst
Edited byLouis Dai
Music byPatrick Grigg
Production
company
Walking Fish Productions
Distributed byRocket Science
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Clean focused on the life of Pankhurst, detailing how she was forcibly given up by her birth mother and subsequent adoption by a family that did not want her. Pankhurst was evicted at seventeen. At this time, Pankhurst was male and later married, had children, and the marriage eventually failed once Pankhurst realised she wished to transition. The majority of the documentary focuses on Pankhurst's later life as the owner and operator of a trauma cleaning service.

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 100% based on 15 reviews.[4] The film was described as being "shot plainly" without fanfare, although one critic did call the addition of re-enactments of events from Pankhurst's past as an "unnecessary major misstep".[1] Variety also described the re-creation scenes as unnecessary, but noted Clean "remains an engaging, spirited documentary, designed less to provoke than to inspire".[5] Clean was the film chosen to close the 70th Melbourne International Film Festival.[6]

References
  1. Tan, Cher (2022-08-20). "Clean review – an unsensational documentary about an extraordinary life". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
  2. Rooney, David (2022-03-23). "'Clean': Film Review | SXSW 2022". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
  3. "Clean (2022) - The Screen Guide - Screen Australia". www.screenaustralia.gov.au. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
  4. "Clean". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  5. Kiang, Jessica (2022-03-21). "'Clean' Review: An Inspirational Doc About Tidying Up Life's Biggest Messes Using Chemicals and Kindness". Variety. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
  6. Quinn, Karl (2022-06-08). "'I think she would have liked it': Trauma Cleaner doco set to debut in Melbourne". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
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