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MOVIES 'Bridgend': Rotterdam Review. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. But as further lives within the group are lost, and she forms an obsessive romantic attachment to shy, morose vicar’s son Jamie (Josh O’Connor), Sara’s own mental state turns increasingly frail. As Arthur Miller once wrote, “A suicide kills two people – that’s what it’s for.”. Bridgend deals with a raw, torn-from-the-headlines story that few filmmakers would even consider. SEE DETAILS. Ronde’s screenplay, co-written with fellow Danes Torben Bech and Peter Asmussen, is speculative to a point, but steers just shy of ascribing a motivation to the deaths.
Sara, meanwhile, finds herself drawn into a circle of local youngsters who’ve created their own private, hermetic community: without much else to do in the dank Welsh autumn, they get drunk in the woods, go skinny-dipping in silty rivers and dance frenziedly at the local rugby club. This leads to one of the final things Rønde hints at as Bridgend moves into its visually sumptuous, bleak and ambiguous conclusion: that these acts are a kind of unspoken punishment meted out by one generation on the other. .cls-2{mix-blend-mode:screen}.cls-3{fill:none;stroke:red;stroke-miterlimit:10;stroke-width:4px}.cls-4{fill:red}. At first, it seems as though he’s trying to imbue his film with the frosty air of a Scandinavian thriller, before it becomes clear that Bridgend does something else: it tries to imagine what a remote town might look like from the perspective of a person on the cusp of adulthood. Working in rich, mossy tones and serene widescreen compositions, d.p. Featured Movie News. An Auction House Is Selling the Bar From Hilter’s Yacht. Looking for movie tickets?
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5:31 AM PST 2/9/2015 by Neil Young FACEBOOK; ... Jeppe Ronde's Bridgend is a toxic combination of the laughable and the reprehensible. Magnus Nordenhof Jonck stresses the region’s somewhat dank beauty as a counterpoint to the pronounced trauma roiling the town’s sleepy surface — a familiar enough contrast from years of suburban-underbelly dramas, though the town doesn’t even look superficially content as high-schooler Sara (Murray) arrives with her policeman father David (Steven Waddington) at the film’s outset. Perhaps it’s a mixture of all these things that drives otherwise ordinary youths to commit such tragic acts. Ryan reviews a difficult yet absorbing film. Get your swag on with discounted movies to stream at home, exclusive movie gear, access to advanced screenings and discounts galore.