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Broken Reviewed by Mark Adams
Rufus Norris makes his feature debut with Broken, a deli- cately structured, interweaving story that has at its core the tale of 11-year-old Skunk (newcomer Laurence), an innocent girl at the start of her summer holidays who finds herself amid a group of complex, fractured and often broken people. The film, which opened Critics’ Week with a Special
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Screening, could well intrigue arthouse distributors who appre ciate its fragile nature and lingering undercurrent of darkness, while the casting of an impressive Tim Roth (as Skunk’s father) and Cillian Murphy will help its profile. Norris is an award-winning theatre director — he has
directed the West End revival of Cabaret and most recently London Road at the National Theatre — and made his screen debut in 2009 with the short film, King Bastard. To a certain extent Broken, which is adapted from Daniel Clay’s 2008 novel, has theatre-production structure: it interlinks three disparate families who all live at the end of a suburban street with its subtle (and at times shocking) drama, allowing room for a string of impressive performances. In the end, Broken feels perhaps too self-consciously slight
and artistic — not a bad thing for a first feature, but perhaps limiting in terms of its ability to break out — with the visual and music cues obvious at times. But Eloise Laurence makes a delightful debut and is a really charming presence while the film is punctuated by a series of striking performances. Sweet-natured Skunk is friendly with her neighbours and
fond of Rick (Emms), an unstable young man who lives opposite her with his parents. She is shocked when next- door neighbour Mr Oswald (Kinnear), who lives with his three precocious daughters, strides over and attacks Rick. As her summer holiday starts, so Skunk’s innocence is chipped away. Her brother, Jed (Milner), warns her how dreadful her new school will be; Rick is taken to an institu- tion to recover from the incident; her au pair, Kasia (Mar- janovic), breaks off her relationship with the genial Mike (Murphy), while her father, Archie (Roth), is attentive and kind but always busy with work. Skunk, who is diabetic, makes occasional trips to a junk-
yard with Jed and a young friend and, as a return to school beckons, the warmth of childhood gives way to a more frac- tured sense of her life as she is bullied by Mr Oswald’s three red-haired daughters Susan (Kosky-Hensman), Saskia (Daveney) and Sunrise (the delightfully tough Bryant), and finds out her father is having a relationship with Kasia. Broken spirals into some delightfully staged scenes of
darkness as the still-troubled Rick returns home and Skunk is placed in a terrible situation and subconsciously has to make a real life-or-death decision. Shot at times with a sense of magical realism, the film is charmingly off-kilter, though its eventual lapse into drama lacks the shock value one might expect. It is, though, a bold and nicely sustained debut.
CRITICS’ WEEK
UK. 2012. 90mins Director Rufus Norris Production companies Cuba Films, BBC Films, BFI, LipSync, Bill Kenwright Films International sales Wild Bunch,
www.wildbunch.biz Producers Dixie Linder, Tally Garner, Nick Marston, Bill Kenwright Executive producers Joe Oppenheimer, Norman Berry Screenplay Mark O’Rowe, based on the novel by Daniel Clay Cinematography Rob Hardy Editor Victoria Boydell Production designer Kave Quinn Music Electric Wave Bureau Main cast Eloise Laurence, Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy, Rory Kinnear, Robert Emms, Zana Marjanovic, Clare Burt, Denis Lawson, Bill Milner, Rosalie Kosky- Hensman, Faye Daveney, Martha Bryant
REVIEWS
n 24 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2012
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