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The Guilty
Why this pick
Like Locke, it builds intense real-time moral pressure from phone calls and a confined workplace, letting one man’s increasingly fraught decisions drive the suspense.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2013 1h 25m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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All Is Lost
Why this pick
A similarly stripped-back, near-solitary ordeal: calm procedural detail and physical restraint make every setback feel personal and immediate.
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The Vast of Night
Why this pick
Its long takes and phone-and-radio conversations create the same escalating, real-time tension, with drama carried by voices, logistics, and focused forward motion.
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The Man from Earth
Why this pick
Another economical chamber piece in which sustained conversation, performance, and mounting emotional stakes make a single setting feel unexpectedly gripping.
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Buried
Why this pick
It shares Locke’s commitment to a lone protagonist under relentless pressure, using calls with distant people to turn constrained space into escalating crisis.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The evening before he must supervise a large concrete pour in Birmingham (the largest non-nuclear facility concrete pour in European history), construction foreman Ivan Locke learns that Bethan, a colleague from a job in Croydon with whom he had a one-night stand seven months before (which resulted in her becoming pregnant), has gone into premature labour. Despite his job responsibilities and although his wife and sons are eagerly awaiting his arrival home to watch an important football match, Locke decides to drive to London to be with Bethan during childbirth. Locke never forgave his father for abandoning him as a child, and he is determined not to make the same mistake, even though he has no relationship with, nor any particular feelings for, Bethan.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Andrew Scott
Donal (voice)
Tom Holland
Eddie (voice)
Alice Lowe
Sister Margaret (voice)
Lee Ross
PC Davids (voice)
Kirsty Dillon
Gareth's Wife (voice)
Bill Milner
Sean (voice)
Tom Hardy
Ivan Locke
Ruth Wilson
Katrina (voice)