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Tyrannosaur
Why this pick
Like The War Zone, it is an unflinching British drama about private trauma and corrosive domestic pain, directed with raw intimacy and emotional restraint rather than sensationalism.
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MOVIE1999 1h 38m ITA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The War Zone
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Snowtown
Why this pick
For its oppressive realism and gradual sense of danger emerging from everyday family life, this is similarly disturbing, controlled, and focused on a young person’s compromised world.
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Fish Tank
Why this pick
Andrea Arnold’s tactile social realism and adolescent viewpoint make family instability feel immediate; it carries a related mix of anger, tenderness, and mounting unease.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
15-year-old Tom is upset after his family move from London to a rural house in Devon, where he misses his friends, and family dynamics are strange. His mother is in the late stages of pregnancy, his father in the home furniture industry. Tom and his 18-year-old sister Jessie are unusually close to each other and everyone helps Mum during her pregnancy.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Tilda Swinton
Mum
Kate Ashfield
Lucy
Kim Wall
Barman
Ray Winstone
Dad
Colin Farrell
Nick
Aisling O'Sullivan
Carol
Annabelle Apsion
Nurse