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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
Its restless, close-observed portrait of a teenage girl in an unstable home shares The Unloved’s tough realism, emotional volatility and refusal to simplify parental failure or childhood resilience.
02
Why this pick
A lyrical but unflinching view of neglected childhood, shaped by subjective images, silence and uneasy domestic spaces; it carries the same compassion without softening pain.
03
Why this pick
It filters precarity and unreliable adult care through a child’s vivid perspective, balancing playfulness with mounting vulnerability in a way that echoes The Unloved’s emotional immediacy.
04
Why this pick
Kore-eda’s patient, deeply humane observation of children left to fend for themselves matches The Unloved’s quiet devastation and its attention to how youngsters create connection amid abandonment.
05
Why this pick
This restrained social-realist classic shares the film’s empathy for a boy marginalised by family and institutions, finding brief, hard-won freedom without turning hardship into sentimentality.
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Lucy
Lucy's Father
Lucy's Mother
Vicky
Lauren
Johann
Karl
Connor
