The Selfish Giant

UN FILM DE Clio Barnard

A FILM BY Clio Barnard

An intensely felt piece of social realism, reinventing Oscar Wilde's story, shows director Clio Barnard growing into one of Britain's best young film-makers

- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Assured and accomplished, so rigorous on both a human and technical level, and so clearly driven by love for this harsh landscape and its hardened people, that I was entirely swept away by its characters and their story.

- Andrew O'Hehir, Salon

So hauntingly perfect is Barnard?s film, and so skin-pricklingly alive does it make you feel to watch it, that at first you can hardly believe the sum of what you have seen: the astonishingly strong performances from her two young, untutored leads; Barnard?s layered script; Mike Eley?s snow-crisp cinematography that makes the streets of Bradford shine.

- Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

synopsis

Arbor, 13 ans, et son meilleur ami Swifty habitent un quartier populaire de Bradford, au Nord de lAngleterre. Renvoyés de lécole, les deux garçons rencontrent Kitten, un ferrailleur du coin. Ils commencent à collecter des métaux usagés pour lui à laide dun cheval et dune charrette. Swifty se découvre un don pour travailler avec les chevaux ; Arbor, de son côté, ne pense quà largent quils peuvent amasser. Kitten joue de leurs différences pour creuser un fossé entre eux. Leur amitié saura-t-elle résister au Géant Egoïste ?