Jessica Swale interview 'Women shouldn't have to pander to the notion of being maternal'

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There's a glorious scene, quite early on in writer and director Jessica Swale's World War II-set debut feature film Summerland, in which the heroine, Alice (Gemma Arterton) does something so spiteful, so childishly mean (I'm not going to tell you what, because it's so joyfully awful), that it actually made me gape. It is almost literally the equivalent of taking candy from a – very spoilt – baby. And it kind of made me want to cheer.

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