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Title Playground
Published Film Movement, 2021
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): .flv file, sound
Summary In this debut feature by writer-director Laura Wandel, the everyday reality of grade school is seen from a child's-eye-view as an obstacle course of degradation and abuse. Following 7-year-old Nora and her big brother Abel, we see Nora struggling to fit in before finding her place on the schoolyard. One day, she notices Abel being bullied by other kids, and though she rushes to protect him by warning their father, Abel forces her to remain silent, while he endures more humiliation and harassment by his peers. Transposing the gritty realism of such filmmakers as Jacques Audiard and the Dardennes Brothers to the inner world of kids, Wandel crafts an empathetic and visceral portrait of the cruelty of children, and the failure of adults to protect them. Shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best International Film
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Film
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Performer Günter Duret, Karim Leklou, Laura Verlinden, Maya Vanderbeque
Event Originally produced by Film Movement in 2021
Notes In English
Subject Foreign films.
Drama.
Motion pictures.
drama (literary genre)
Drama
Foreign films
Motion pictures
Genre/Form Feature films
Feature films.
Form Streaming video
Author Wandel, Laura, film director
Duret, Günter, actor
Leklou, Karim, actor
Verlinden, Laura, actor
Vanderbeque, Maya, actor
Film Movement (Firm)