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Innocence
Why this pick
This dreamlike girls’ boarding-school fable shares The Falling’s enclosed feminine world, cryptic rituals, and beautiful-but-disquieting sense that adult rules conceal something unknowable.
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MOVIE2014 1h 42m GBR
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Though more direct and energetic, its focus on sisters resisting social confinement carries the same urgent attention to female solidarity, sexuality, and institutional control.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1969, Lydia and Abbie are best friends at an English girls school. Lydia, the neglected daughter of an agoraphobic mother, becomes fixated on Abbie, who has begun to explore her sexuality. After having sex with Lydia's brother Kenneth in an attempt to abort her pregnancy by another boy, Abbie begins to suffer from Mass psychogenic illness. She suffers an episode after a stint in detention with Lydia and dies in the process. Following Abbie's burial, Lydia begins suffering as well from fainting spells, and it soon becomes an epidemic, with numerous girls and a young teacher in the school spontaneously passing out for no more than a few seconds. Lydia becomes convinced that the administration must take action, much to the chagrin of the school principal.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Maisie Williams
Lydia Lamont
Florence Pugh
Abbie Mortimer
Joe Cole
Kenneth Lamont
Monica Dolan
Miss Martha Alvaro
Mathew Baynton
Mr Hopkins
Jiggy Bhore
Mrs Maud Leece
Ellie Bamber
Schoolgirl
Maxine Peake
Eileen Lamont