Janet McTeer as Dell / Tideland by Terry Gilliam (2005)/ extract 4

Tideland is a 2005 film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam , an adaptation of Mitch Cullin ‘s novel of the same name . The world premiere was at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival , where the film was met with mixed response from both viewers and critics. At Spain ‘s 2005 San Sebastian Festival , Tideland was awarded the esteemed FIPRESCI Prize, selected by an international jury of critics that, in their award statement, said: “Our jury focused on the international competition and found Terry Gilliam’s Tideland to be the best film of the selection — a decision which provoked controversial reactions.”. However, many of the subsequent mainstream reviews of Tideland were largely mixed and often negative, with Japan being the only country where it was both a critical and box office success. The film was first released in Russia (February 2006). Tideland centers on an abandoned child, Jeliza-Rose ( Jodelle Ferland ), and her solitary adventures during one summer in rural Texas while staying at a rundown farmhouse called What Rocks, and focuses on the increasingly dark, imaginative fantasy life the girl creates with the aid of dismembered Barbie doll heads that she often wears on her fingertips. After her mother ( Jennifer Tilly ) dies from a drug overdose , Jeliza-Rose and her father, Noah ( Jeff Bridges ), flee to Noah’s mother’s home, a remote Texas farmhouse. They find the home abandoned, but they settle in anyway. Their first night there, Noah dies from a …