

Bridgend
'Bridgend' follows Sara and her dad, Dave as they arrive to a small village in Bridgend County that has seen an outbreak of teen suicides. As Dave investigates the deaths and tries to prevent more from happening, Sara falls in love with the son of the local vicar.


















16 July 1991, Newport, South Wales, UK



27 March 1958, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK


5 July 1972, Brecon, Powys, Wales, UK

28 September 1974, Wales, UK


1968, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK




October 28, 2016
Rønde shot the film on location "in the Valleys" of rural Wales and the atmosphere of the landscape pervades the film; gloomy and isolated and swallowed up in fog, it is beautiful but lonely ...
May 05, 2016
While [director Jeppe Rønde's] preference for mood over plot occasionally results in repetition, the film [...] casts an eerie, increasingly nightmarish spell.
May 05, 2016
The main reason to see the film is Game of Thrones' Hannah Murray, who plays the new girl in town trying to fit in with and make sense of the inarticulately troubled youths who are taking their own lives.
March 07, 2016
Bridgend portrays a group of lost young people tearing madly at life, veering between wild ecstasy and violent nihilism.
February 09, 2016
An unimaginable reality is brought to the brink of clarity -- only to plunge right back into a psychological abyss -- in Danish helmer Jeppe Ronde's potent, pain-ridden Bridgend.
May 05, 2016
A stylishly shot, eerily scored and moodily acted film that wants for nothing but a plot. Depending on how you like your movies, this is either a walkout or a must-see.
February 09, 2016
The basic premise stretches credulity from the off.
February 11, 2016
This is no horror movie, though it does have a hell of a haunting finish.
May 22, 2016
It's a piercing statement on human behaviour, sometimes it can feel inauthentic, even evoking a vague Shakespearean tragedy at one point.
February 21, 2016
A mood piece that chills your bones as it crescendos into abstraction.
May 06, 2016
The ambitions are there in Rønde's film and are exciting to witness, as is the evocative imagery. But "Bridgend" feels imbalanced.
May 01, 2016
Bridgend, with its dark-blue-hued cinematography and murky music, is all foreboding atmosphere.