The Cement Garden (1993)
Country: GB/GER/FR
Technical: col 105m
Director: Andrew Birkin
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Andrew Robertson
Synopsis:
On a West Midlands housing estate a brother and sister conceal their mother's body and bring up their younger siblings as a queasy quasi-couple.
Review:
Ian McEwan's disturbing book does not quite transfer to the screen, such is the glamorising power of film. The grand guignol and incestuous aspects instead take on an audacious irresistibility at one with exploitation cinema, irrespective of their differing aims.
Country: GB/GER/FR
Technical: col 105m
Director: Andrew Birkin
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Andrew Robertson
Synopsis:
On a West Midlands housing estate a brother and sister conceal their mother's body and bring up their younger siblings as a queasy quasi-couple.
Review:
Ian McEwan's disturbing book does not quite transfer to the screen, such is the glamorising power of film. The grand guignol and incestuous aspects instead take on an audacious irresistibility at one with exploitation cinema, irrespective of their differing aims.
Country: GB/GER/FR
Technical: col 105m
Director: Andrew Birkin
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Andrew Robertson
Synopsis:
On a West Midlands housing estate a brother and sister conceal their mother's body and bring up their younger siblings as a queasy quasi-couple.
Review:
Ian McEwan's disturbing book does not quite transfer to the screen, such is the glamorising power of film. The grand guignol and incestuous aspects instead take on an audacious irresistibility at one with exploitation cinema, irrespective of their differing aims.