本片由克里欧·巴纳德自编自导，影片改编自罗斯·特瑞美2010年的小说，故事围绕一对力图摆脱过往家庭伤痛的兄妹展开。

本剧改编自Sarah Perry的同名小说，讲述刚丧偶的Cora Seaborne（Claire Danes 饰），从伦敦搬去了埃塞克斯郡，调查关于一条神秘之蛇的传闻。Cora与村里的牧师Will R...

　　本片由克里欧·巴纳德自编自导，影片改编自罗斯·特瑞美2010年的小说，故事围绕一对力图摆脱过往家庭伤痛的兄妹展开。

《自私的巨人》讲述了一个发生在13岁的阿伯（Arbor）和他最好的朋友斯威夫特（Swifty）之间的当代寓言故事。这两个男孩受到学校和社区内其他人的排挤，后来遇到了当地的废品经销商“小猫”（Kitten），即“自私的巨人”。于是他们开始驾驶一辆马车帮他收集废弃的金属。斯威夫特天生就擅于和马匹打交道，而阿伯却效法“小猫”的行为，非常希望能让“小猫”对他刮目相看，再挣一笔钱。但“小猫”更喜欢斯威夫特，这让阿伯觉得受到了伤害和排挤，于是两个男孩之间的关系出现了裂缝。阿伯变得越来越贪婪，越来越剥削他人，也越来越像“小猫”。随着三人之间的关系越发紧张，悲剧发生了，彻底改变了他们的命运。

　　Last at the Festival with 2017’s rural noir Dark River, a selection in the Platform programme, writer-director Clio Barnard returns to the Bradford, West Yorkshire setting of her earlier films for this tumultuous, fiercely affecting midlife love story.
　　A bundle of good humour and nervous energy, Ali (Adeel Akhtar) is a British Pakistani working-class landlord who forges close bonds with his tenants. One day, while picking up one of his tenants’ children from school, he offers a lift to Ava (Claire Rushbrook), an Irish-born teacher and single mother of five. They bond almost instantly through their love of music, though Ali favours the high energy of Buzzcocks and hip-hop while Ava takes refuge in the quieter comforts of Bob Dylan and Karen Dalton. Despite their divergent backgrounds, differences in their stages of life, and the colour of their skin, despite the fact of Ali’s failing marriage and Ava’s fraught relationship with her adult and adolescent children, each finds themself irresistibly drawn to the other. But can their mutual desire transcend a barrage of personal obstacles?
　　Inspired by people Barnard encountered while making her acclaimed features The Arbor and The Selfish Giant, Ali & Ava is a film that feels profoundly rooted in lived experience, blending a tender emotional complexity with an at times bracing depiction of trauma and grief. Akhtar and Rushbrook’s finely hued performances speak to the setting’s cultural diversity and tribal loyalties while yielding a vulnerability that’s alternately heart-wrenching and joyous. Their story serves as a reminder that it is sometimes the least likely connections that are the ones most worth pursuing.

　　BBC续订《失魂舍伍德》第二季。