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The Selfish Giant
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Arbor is a 13-year-old boy and Swifty are best friends together. In this experiment, their lives seem to be completely changed as Kitten, a local scrap dealer, appears to meet the duo together while Kitten seems to prefer Swifty making Arbor during this period.
Genre:
Drama
Actors:
Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Ralph Ineson, Ian Burfield, Everal Walsh, Sean Gilder, Lorraine Ashbourne, Elliott Tittensor, Rebecca Manley, John Wall, Mohammed Ali, ...»
Director:
Clio Barnard
Country:
United Kingdom
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#British Film Institute (BFI) #Clio Barnard #Conner Chapman #Film4 #Moonspun Films #Sean Gilder #Shaun Thomas #The Selfish Giant
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Concrete Playground
August 04, 2014 The Selfish Giant is one of the best films of the year: captivating, often funny, and filled with the most naturalistic performances you're likely to see.
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ABC Radio (Australia)
August 06, 2014 There is a plot (adapted from Oscar Wilde's famous short story of the same name), and it's a good one, but ... most important are Arbor and Swifty, played to pure perfection by little Connor Chapman and big Shaun Thomas.
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Toronto Star
January 23, 2014 Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant isn't the Oscar Wilde children's story, but more an inspired take on it in the kitchen-sink style of a Ken Loach drama.
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The New Republic
January 03, 2014 The Selfish Giant is a film of such power and beauty that there will be no escaping it -- so long as you go to see it in the first place.
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Chicago Reader
January 09, 2014 [A] wrenching story of working-poor desperation in northern England.
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Birmingham Mail
October 10, 2014 Writer-director Clio Barnard directs with ferocious maturity, galvanising "scrap" pieces of everyday life into a wonderfully cinematic whole.
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Detroit News
February 19, 2014 "The Selfish Giant" is a story of dependence, damage and desperation, told with grit and grimy frankness. It's also a portrait of friendship born of need and emptiness, on the road to nowhere.
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New Yorker
January 13, 2014 Much of the movie is hard to bear, yet it never drags, thanks to the momentum that Barnard finds in the fable, and, above all, to the energy that she unleashes in her young leads.
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The Australian
August 11, 2014 Barnard's film is charged with the same compassion and lyricism. It is one of those desperately sad and dispiriting films that one would prefer to forget but probably never will.
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The Film Stage
June 21, 2016 Barnard bolsters this central friendship and subsequent unwitting rivalry with myriad background details to flesh out their world and expose how dire circumstances are.
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