The seductive opening sequence of Everybody Digs Bill Evans draws you in like a magnet. The improvised jazz drifting through the air at the Village Vanguard in New York on a summer night in 1961 — soft, caressing, mellow, smoky — is one thing. But the extraordinary communion shared by the musicians of the Bill Evans Trio is what makes the sequence so memorable, concretizing what will later be described as “a perfect conversation” between them. Fingers skitter up and down the strings of a double bass, hands massage the piano keys, brushes gently scratch at the drums. It’s hypnotic.

Film-maker Myrid Carten exposes her relationship with her mother – who has both bipolar disorder and alcoholism – in this painful but powerful documentary

Irish filmmaker Myrid Carten's haunting feature debut presents a complex and unflinchingly honest portrait of her relationship with her alcoholic mother.