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2013/14 Season

SHELL

UK 2012 (15) 91 minutes Directed by Scott Graham

Ipswich Film Theatre - 28 October 2013 - 7.30pm A richly poetic drama set at a petrol station on a lonely road in the Highlands. The title character, teenager Shell, mans the station with her emotionally distant father Pete, her only other contact coming from passing drivers – some regulars, others only travelling through the desolate terrain. AUDIENCE COMMENTS: Less is sometimes more. A beautiful and poignant little tale; Beautiful, stark, moody. A study in loneliness; Completely spoiled by the mast minute. Otherwise excellent; McGrim! Drab, inconsequential, wallowing, punctuated with a banal dialogue that could collectively fill half a postage stamp. The deer was mercifully put out of its misery early on while I had to endure the rest of this exercise in emotional self preservation!

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