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The Moth Diaries
Why this pick
Another cloistered girls’ boarding-school drama where intense friendship, jealousy and an unsettling adult presence make adolescence feel psychologically dangerous.
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MOVIE2009 1h 44m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Set in the 1930s in a strict elite United Kingdom boarding school called St Mathilda's, the story centers on a clique of girls who idolize their enigmatic Diving (sport) instructor, Miss G (Eva Green) (in the film, we learn that Miss G had been a student at the same school where she now works and, in fact, may have even continued on at the school after she graduated). Di Radfield (Juno Temple) has a crush on Miss G, and is the firm favourite and ringleader of her group. When a beautiful Spanish people girl named Fiamma Corona (María Valverde) arrives at the school, Miss G's focus is shifted away from the other girls. It becomes a triangle: Miss G gets increasingly obsessed with Fiamma, Fiamma is disturbed by Miss G and also openly disgusted by the teacher's hypocrisies and deceptions, and Di is terribly jealous and makes Fiamma's life hell.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Eva Green
Miss Gribben
María Valverde
Fiamma Coronna
Imogen Poots
Poppy
Juno Temple
Di Radfield
Sinéad Cusack
Miss Nieven
Helen Norton
Matron
Deirdre Donnelly
Miss Lacey
Barbara Adair
Miss Cairns