Immediate, real, poignant, Clio Barnard immediately earns the right to sit beside Lynn Ramsay and Andrea Arnold as one of our top directors. And Conner Chapman is so natural it's like he isn't acting. Weird that he and Shaun Thomas were originally to play each other's parts. Lots of good support from Sean Gilder and Siobhan Finneran (salvagers), Lorraine Ashbourne and Steve Evets (friend's parents), Elliott Tittensor (brother, also from Shameless), and Rebecca Manley as mum.
Lyrical too (final shot is of the horse's eye).
Shot by Mike Eley (Parade's End).
Films which Barnard researched - The Boy on the Bicycle, Kes, Les Quatres Cent Coups, Bicycle Thieves - certainly spring to mind.
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