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The Selfish Giant
Description
Arbor is a 13 years old boy and Swifty is his best friend. One day, they meet Kitten who is a local scrap dealer. Because Kitten favors Swifty which makes Arbor hurt so it leads to a tragic event.
Arbor is a 13 years old boy and Swifty is his best friend. One day, they meet Kitten who is a local scrap dealer. Because Kitten favors Swifty which makes Arbor hurt so it leads to a tragic event.
Actors:
Robert Haythorne,
Lewis Murch,
Lorraine Ashbourne,
Jake Gibson,
Joe Saul,
Queenie,
Ginger Sellars,
Martin Stokes,
Rebecca Manley,
Junior,
Ken Christiansen,
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Robert Haythorne
Lewis Murch
Lorraine Ashbourne
1961, Manchester, England, UK
Jake Gibson
Joe Saul
Queenie
Ginger Sellars
Martin Stokes
Rebecca Manley
Junior
Ken Christiansen
6 August 1971, Lancaster, England, UK
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Clio Barnard
Clio Barnard
Country:
United Kingdom
Keywords:
#British Film Institute (BFI) #Clio Barnard #Conner Chapman #Film4 #Moonspun Films #Sean Gilder #Shaun Thomas #The Selfish Giant
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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.
October 10, 2014
Writer-director Clio Barnard directs with ferocious maturity, galvanising "scrap" pieces of everyday life into a wonderfully cinematic whole.
Seattle Times
January 16, 2014
Ultimately, it's a sad, tough sit - but worth seeing for its gritty honesty and strong cast.
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.
January 09, 2014
[A] wrenching story of working-poor desperation in northern England.
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.
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.
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.
Little White Lies
August 18, 2015
Though they share the same title, director Clio Barnard's bewitching follow-up to The Arbor bears little cosmetic similarity to the fluorescent idyll of Oscar Wilde's 19th century children's fable.
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.
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.
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.
