[1] The comedian Alexei Sayle, then a student of Rees-Mogg's at Chelsea, recalled that she "involved herself to a greater degree than the rest of the staff with her students, particularly the boys whom she collected around her so that we formed an odd little troop, wandering around accompanied by the ticking sound of our clockwork cameras".
[1] Rees-Mogg regularly drove her students in her brown Ford Escort estate, with Sayle recalling that she rarely changed out of third gear, so she "travelled everywhere at thirty miles-an-hour in a cloud of smoke and disintegrating clutch".
[2] Rees-Mogg held Socialist political views in contrast to the Conservative and Roman Catholic persuasions of her family.
Thew likened Rees-Mogg's densely decorated house to the curated boxes of the American conceptual artist Joseph Cornell, crowded with "ivory letters, the inflatable Coca-Cola bottle, the vast collection of enamel signs and mementoes, academy leaders and old Kodak Spools, the round mirror-topped table heaped with cut glass decanter tops".
Gronlund also remarked that Rees-Mogg's technique of combining memories, pop songs, and her own subtly self-deprecating commentary felt modern and in line with contemporary approaches to filmmaking.
[1] Rees-Mogg's films focus on the domestic locales of her lfe, including her flat in south London, and her ancestral home Cholwell House in Somerset.
In the film she states that "I don't think that anyone should ever do what they are told...If you look back at obedience to fashion in writing, in painting, in film-making, it just doesn’t work.