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Synopsis: An official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, The Selfish Giant is a contemporary fable about 13 year old Arbor (Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas). Excluded from school and outsiders in their own neighborhood, the two boys meet Kitten (Sean Gilder), a local scrap dealer. Wandering their town with just a horse and a cart, they begin collecting scrap metal for him. Swifty has a natural gift with horses while Arbor emulates Kitten - keen to impress him and make some money. However, Kitten favors Swifty, leaving Arbor feeling hurt and excluded, driving a wedge between the boys. As Arbor becomes increasingly greedy and exploitative, tensions build, leading to a tragic event that transforms them all.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Clio Barnard
Production: Sundance Selects
  12 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
83
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
91 min
$12,189
Website
443 Views


to put money aside

for the electric.

When you've got your food,

get in the living room.

- Right, go on.

Sit down and eat.

- It's cold!

- Yes, I know it's cold.

- Sit there.

- Hey, hey, hey, hey!

Clear off there.

Get off that settee.

And be quiet, the lot of you.

Quiet. Shh.

Hiya, mate, come in.

Come in.

There you go, mate.

300 quid.

- I'll give you 250 quid,

Price Drop.

- You want to sit down?

- Be no comebacks.

- No comebacks.

- No comebacks. 250.

Deal.

Hey, kids, away from there.

I need to get this out.

- Give it up, yous two.

- Hey, would you stop fighting

and sit down?

Sit down and eat your tea.

- It's not bleedin' funny.

You try lifting one of these.

- Ha-ha, ha-ha.

- Weakling!

- That's right.

Put it down.

Turn it round.

- Weakling!

- What we gonna sit on now?

- Just sit on the floor.

- F***!

- You watch your language, you.

- Can I go out, Mum?

Ah, me f***ing leg!

You got me f***ing arm trapped,

Price Drop.

Jesus!

Down here. Down here.

F***ing hell.

You get in and finish your tea!

Come on, let's get it shifted.

- Look at the state

of Swift's house.

It's f***ing disgusting.

- Mate, you're gonna get

lurgy now.

- Yeah, he's gonna start

frothing at the mouth

in a minute.

- Retard rabies, yeah.

- Shut up, you bell ends.

- He's got retard rabies.

- Oh, yeah, whatever.

D*ckheads. Chip.

- Tramp!

Little scruff.

- Where'd you get

your jacket from?

About time.

What you been doing?

- What have you been doing?

- Just been climbing that,

waiting for you.

- Trying to look through

me bedroom window?

- Oh, yeah.

Come on.

- Back in your bush.

- Go on.

Come on, Diesel.

- Hey, look, it's Kitten.

Go on!

- Come on.

- Go on.

Go on.

- No, come on.

- Go on, Diesel.

Go on.

- Yeah, Kitten.

You want some more

of that cable?

- I'm busy.

You can handle him better

than that.

What are you doing?

- He's holding his reins

too tight.

- What?

- He's holding his reins

too tight.

He's pulling it back.

- Loosen reins.

Where'd you learn that?

- Taken to road races

when I were younger.

- He's mad for horses,

him, you know.

- Come on.

- Oy, wait here.

- Go on, off you go.

That's better.

Why didn't you do that

first time?

Go on.

- Go on again.

- Face forward and get on

with your work, mate.

- I can't be arsed

doing my work.

- Well,

that's your first warning.

Get another one,

I'll see you again tomorrow.

- Oy, f*ggot!

Did your mum get f***ed

by a horse, Swifty?

Is that what's got

bothering you?

- You're a f***ing tramp.

- Don't drink that, mate.

Seen the state of his lips?

You'll have something on that.

- Your mum's a mong.

- Your dad, yeah,

is an inbred retard.

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Clio Barnard

Clio Barnard is a British director of documentary and feature films. She won widespread critical acclaim and multiple awards for her debut, The Arbor, an experimental documentary about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. In 2013 she was hailed as a significant new voice in British cinema for her film The Selfish Giant, which premiered in the Director's Fortnight section of the Cannes film festival. more…

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