Event

The Selfish Giant

Jan 17 - Jan 22

(Clio Barnard, United Kingdom, 2013, DCP, 91 min)

Seattle premiere!

Friday, Jan 17 at 07:00PM
Friday, Jan 17 at 09:00PM
Saturday, Jan 18 at 07:00PM
Saturday, Jan 18 at 09:00PM
Sunday, Jan 19 at 07:00PM
Sunday, Jan 19 at 09:00PM
Monday, Jan 20 at 07:00PM
Monday, Jan 20 at 09:00PM
Tuesday, Jan 21 at 07:00PM
Tuesday, Jan 21 at 09:00PM
Wednesday, Jan 22 at 07:00PM
Wednesday, Jan 22 at 09:00PM

A global recession-era take on an Oscar Wilde fable, The Selfish Giant tells the tale of two adolescent boys who get by in their rural central England town by pilfering scrap metal and racing horses. Thirteen year-old Arbor and his best friend Swifty are outsiders, literally living on the outskirts of lavish estates. They meet a local scrap dealer, Kitten, who favors the kind-hearted Swifty, even as Arbor strives to impress Kitten with his money-making schemes.

British director Clio Barnard's crafting of a social realist fairy tale has earned her comparisons to the work of Ken Loach. Barnard won widespread acclaim for her first film, the experimental documentary The Arbor (about playwright Andrea Dunbar). The Selfish Giant premiered at Cannes and has gone on to win festival awards and appear on 2013 Top 10 lists.