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Mike Eley

“We [cinematographers] are today struggling against forces that see the accessibility and ‘flexibility’ of digital technology as being an invite to meddle. It’s crucial we retain control. It should be the author’s work, as intended to be seen. As cinema enters a new and exciting age, that becomes ever more an imperative.”

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    The Selfish Giant

    THE SELFISH GIANT

    CLIO BARNARD United Kingdom, 2013

    Though self-consciously structured as if a fairy tale or fable, Clio Barnard’s follow-up to the docudrama The Arbor continues the tradition of Britain’s kitchen sink socio-realism. Both devastating and compassionate, The Selfish Giant is a profound film on friendship and the class system.

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