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The Selfish Giant
Arbor is a 13 years old boy and Swifty is his best friend. One day, they meet Kitten who is a local scrap dealer. Because Kitten favors Swifty which makes Arbor hurt so it leads to a tragic event.
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13 November 1988, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
1977, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1961, Manchester, England, UK
1967, Lancashire, England, UK
October 10, 2014
Writer-director Clio Barnard directs with ferocious maturity, galvanising "scrap" pieces of everyday life into a wonderfully cinematic whole.
August 04, 2014
The Selfish Giant is one of the best films of the year: captivating, often funny, and filled with the most naturalistic performances you're likely to see.
August 06, 2014
There is a plot (adapted from Oscar Wilde's famous short story of the same name), and it's a good one, but ... most important are Arbor and Swifty, played to pure perfection by little Connor Chapman and big Shaun Thomas.
June 21, 2016
Barnard bolsters this central friendship and subsequent unwitting rivalry with myriad background details to flesh out their world and expose how dire circumstances are.
August 11, 2014
Barnard's film is charged with the same compassion and lyricism. It is one of those desperately sad and dispiriting films that one would prefer to forget but probably never will.
January 13, 2014
Much of the movie is hard to bear, yet it never drags, thanks to the momentum that Barnard finds in the fable, and, above all, to the energy that she unleashes in her young leads.
August 18, 2015
Though they share the same title, director Clio Barnard's bewitching follow-up to The Arbor bears little cosmetic similarity to the fluorescent idyll of Oscar Wilde's 19th century children's fable.
February 19, 2014
"The Selfish Giant" is a story of dependence, damage and desperation, told with grit and grimy frankness. It's also a portrait of friendship born of need and emptiness, on the road to nowhere.
January 09, 2014
[A] wrenching story of working-poor desperation in northern England.
January 03, 2014
The Selfish Giant is a film of such power and beauty that there will be no escaping it -- so long as you go to see it in the first place.
January 16, 2014
Ultimately, it's a sad, tough sit - but worth seeing for its gritty honesty and strong cast.
January 23, 2014
Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant isn't the Oscar Wilde children's story, but more an inspired take on it in the kitchen-sink style of a Ken Loach drama.
