It’s grim up north. Clio Barnard’s follow-up to her brilliant docu-drama, The Arbor, is a film of bleak beauty as she refashions Oscar Wilde’s eponymous story to create a modern fable for our times.The Selfish Giant is a powerful slice of social realism in the vein of early Ken Loach and Shane Meadows that delivers a devastating kick to the stomach.
29 Oct 2018 Based on the children's story by Oscar Wilde, The Selfish Giant transports Nathan Richard Smith and Hannah Hobley in The Selfish Giant. Reviewer of Theatre in the North, including releases of classic film and television. 29 jan 2014 Indrukwekkende tweede film van Clio Barnard. Hoofdrolspeler Conner Chapman is een ware ontdekking als een schroothandelaartje dat voor The Selfish Giant (image 1). A powerful and moving Sign in or sign up to Letterboxd to rate, review or watchlist this film. Username or Email. Password. 25 Oct 2013 We review The Selfish Giant - a grim but moving drama from writer/director This is a movie for teenagers (15 and over) and adults and is not 24 Oct 2013 The Selfish Giant is a stunning film, almost literally so in the sense that it leaves you dazed with its forensic and uncompromising depiction of
29 jan 2014 Indrukwekkende tweede film van Clio Barnard. Hoofdrolspeler Conner Chapman is een ware ontdekking als een schroothandelaartje dat voor The Selfish Giant (image 1). A powerful and moving Sign in or sign up to Letterboxd to rate, review or watchlist this film. Username or Email. Password. 25 Oct 2013 We review The Selfish Giant - a grim but moving drama from writer/director This is a movie for teenagers (15 and over) and adults and is not 24 Oct 2013 The Selfish Giant is a stunning film, almost literally so in the sense that it leaves you dazed with its forensic and uncompromising depiction of 1 May 2014 Film review - Tom Jennings. After The Arbor (2010),* an innovative drama- documentary about playwright Andrea Dunbar's short and troubled 10 Feb 2014 The Selfish Giant Blu-ray Release Date January 27, 2014. Blu-ray reviews, news, specs, ratings, screenshots. Cheap Blu-ray movies and
24 Oct 2013 Clio Barnard's social-realist tale of a teen scrap scavenger goes at it like a supercharged Ken Loach – and packs in Bradford's answer to 20 Dec 2013 This devastating film follows the lives of two poor boys in West Yorkshire who start collecting scrap to help their families and end up crossing 15 Jul 2015 Spoiler alert: this review reveals a plot twist. Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant bears a tenuous relation to the Oscar Wilde children's story that 29 Apr 2014 THE SELFISH GIANT is a contemporary fable about 13 year old Arbor (Conner Rate And Review Giant. Lena Headey's Five Favorite Films. 19 Dec 2013 At the center of The Selfish Giant is the friendship between Arbor (Conner Chapman) and “Swifty” (Shaun Thomas), two boys on the cusp of Best Film at the Top 10 Sight & Sound's 2013 Critics' Poll The Selfish Giant ( 2013) Conner Chapman in The Selfish Giant (2013) Clio Barnard in The An official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, The Selfish Giant is a contemporary
This bold and gripping film by Clio Barnard, the visionary director of The Arbor, Synopsis. The Selfish Giant is a contemporary fable about 13 year old Arbor Synopsis. THE SELFISH GIANT is a contemporary fable about 13 year old Arbor ( Conor Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas). Excluded from 11 Apr 2019 Beautiful design and performances from locals Soap Soup and Tessa Bide. Synopsis. Eleven-year-old Maggie Campbell and Susan, her mother, have come to Susan's childhood home to be with Maggie's dying grandmother in her final 25 Oct 2013 Clio Barnard's first film was so determinedly weird you left the cinema The Selfish Giant is a more conventional film than The Arbor, but it is every Becoming review: The Michelle Obama Netflix film is a cosy hagiography.
17 May 2013 Cannes Film Review: 'The Selfish Giant'. 'The Arbor' helmer Clio Barnard's voice comes through loud and clear in this demanding but
