When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house; and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself. A Want in Her is an immersive, first-person account of the cost of love, and how difficult it can be to escape.

“Raw, searing … a daughter’s shattering testament to her mother’s absence, presence and endurance … passages of cathartic beauty, grace and even humour.”

VARIETY

“The work of an artist, one who is making her own rules about how to tell this story, far from documentary dogmas … A Want in Her is reminiscent, at times, of the work of Jonathan Glazer. But it’s too original and accomplished for such parallels to stick.”
SCREEN DAILY

“A profound reprocessing of personal archives and piercing conversations … clearly impresses as a debut and could become essential viewing for anyone grappling with the indescribable complexities within a mother-daughter relationship.”
CINEUROPA

“The term hybrid documentary scarcely does justice to the achievement of this picture, which aims rather to contribute to a wider discussion of what documentary and filmmaking at large can and will do.”
THE PEOPLE’S MOVIES

“Miraculous … a raw portrait of vulnerability and confrontation.”
FILM FEST REPORT

“Consistently compelling and impressive … an example of how to make a strikingly original aesthetic statement from wrenchingly personal material.”
THE FILM VERDICT

“A raw, gut-punching and surprisingly funny examination of the meaning of unconditional love.”

DOCUMENTARY WEEKLY