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Original title:
Orphans
Made in:
England 1997
Length:
101 min.
Seen:
at the cinema 28-12-1999
Review read:
3518 times
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The orphans of director-writer Peter Mullan's film are three brothers and a handicapped sister, who react to their mother's death in different ways on the night before the funeral. It becomes a dramatic night for all of them.
Orphans is an unpredictable and successful mixture of harsh realism as in a Ken Loach film and black comedy. The themes of death, mourning and the disintegration of a family are not exactly obvious material for a comedy, but Mullan does not care. The film manages to balance a more serious tone with a tragicomic humour.
Directed by:
Written by:
Peter Mullan.
Cast:
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