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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
444 Views


Look at me.

Is an inbred retard, yeah?

And your family's gonna be

in debt

for the rest

of their f***ing lives.

- Oy, his psycho mate's coming.

- Go on, Swifty, hit him!

Go on, Swifty!

Don't let 'em bully you!

F***ing hit him!

- Fight! Fight! Fight!

Fight! Fight! Fight!

- F*** off me!

- Fenton, Swift,

Headmaster's office now.

- F*** off.

- Oh, yeah, big boy.

Go on.

- D*ckhead.

- Go on!

- His team leader

administered his medication.

- Why do you use

this stupid language?

To make me feel intimidated?

Well, I'll tell you something.

I don't feel intimidated by you.

I've had two kids

through this school,

and you've failed both of 'em.

- You have to look at

the bigger picture.

- Where's he gonna go now

now you've kicked him out?

'Cause nobody else

is gonna take him, are they?

- Mrs. Fenton, if we both speak

at the same time,

neither of us will hear

what each other is saying.

- Well, I've heard enough

from you.

- I don't think

mainstream school's

the right place for him.

I'm sorry.

Is there anything I can-

- No.

You've been excluded

permanently.

- Sick.

- Arbor!

- He's been excluded

for 10 days.

Lad's got concussion.

He had to go to hospital.

That's what he said.

You need to get an education.

- It's all right, Mum.

- Our Arbor were protecting him.

Arbor stood up for him.

- Didn't mean for him

to get into trouble, Mrs. Swift.

- I'm sorry, love.

- Brilliant, eh?

Don't have to go to school.

I can go out scrapping

and make some money.

You coming or what?

Guess what.

- Are you joking?

- No.

- We're like f***ing right divs

with that.

- We got to start somewhere.

Come on.

- Oh, my God.

- Come on, then.

- Smell you from round

the corner, Swifty.

- Go f*** off, you.

- F***ing stink, you.

- Oh, there's a pan there.

Watch that lot

so it don't get nicked.

- Oy, Swift.

Did you lose that baby

or did your dad sell it?

- They'll be worth something,

won't they, Swifty?

- Take that.

- Yeah.

- Leave these.

- Yeah, yeah, ain't it.

- Take these bits as well.

- Oy, what the f***

are you doing?

- What does it look like?

We're scrapping 'em.

- You're f***ing not

scrapping 'em.

I'm fixing 'em up

and selling 'em.

- Seriously,

you're fixing them up?

Don't f***ing think so.

- Who the f***ing hell

do you think you are, eh?

Coming round here

and thieving my f***ing stuff.

- Get away. He's me mate.

- Hey!

Now f*** off out me sight,

the pair of you.

- Shut the f*** up.

- Go on and take your f***ing

shitty pram with you.

You f***ing get in now.

- Fenton, you thieving bastard!

I'll break your f***ing legs!

It's your brother. Look.

- We look like f***ing

smackheads.

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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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