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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like The Reflecting Skin, it filters rural childhood through a feverish, sinister imagination, balancing grotesque humour with escalating emotional damage and an unnervingly subjective sense of reality.
02
Why this pick
A child’s inner world turns tactile and threatening in this dreamlike, visually stylised British nightmare, sharing the earlier film’s fragile innocence, dread, and uncanny images.
03
Why this pick
Its isolated young heroine survives through elaborate fantasy amid alarming adult neglect, matching the rural decay, darkly heightened imagery, and unstable child perspective of The Reflecting Skin.
04
Why this pick
This is less fantastical but similarly turns a small community and childhood tragedy into haunted, fractured memory, with a cold, mournful atmosphere and restrained menace.
05
Why this pick
A young girl’s grief and imagination quietly blur the boundaries around her family life, offering the same unsettling child-centred viewpoint and lyrical, poisoned nostalgia.
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01 / THE STORY
Eight year-old Seth Dove (Jeremy Cooper) lives in an isolated American prairie community in the 1950s. The film opens with Seth and his friends Eben and Kim, playing with a frog Seth has found in the fields. The boys inflate the frog by inserting a reed up its anus and leave it by the side of the road. When a local English widow, Dolphin Blue (Lindsay Duncan), stops to inspect it, Seth shoots the inflated frog with a slingshot, causing it to explode over Dolphin.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Cameron Dove
Luke Dove
Joshua, Eben's Father
Ruth Dove
Sheriff Ticker
Eben
Cassie
Kim
