Alice Coulthard, Andrew Robertson, Charlotte Gainsbourg
DVD Release Date: June 21, 2005
Stats: 105 reviews
Watching this film was a pleasantly unpleasant experience for me. Rather disturbing but fascinating and deep, cruel and tender at the same time, both dreamy and grotesquely real. A British jewel not to be missed!
The story relates what can happen when parents unexpectedly abandon their children. Super acting by Andrew Robertson as Jack and Charlotte Gainsbourg as Julie. With their parents dead, it is the older sister and the sexually curious younger brother who adjust to the reality of so...( read more)
The plot focuses on the lives of four children after their father dies & mother is sick with a mysterious illness. Two eldest kids- Jack & Julie have the responsibility of managing the household with meager resources. They share a tense relation which is bordering on edges of att...( read more)
A bit disturbing but a good movie nonetheless. I especially liked the detached narration while Jack read his book.
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