Steve Evets

Seven test subjects are locked in a remote medical facility for a new experimental drug trial that gives some of them murderous side effects.

Though self-consciously structured as if a fairy tale or fable, Clio Barnard’s follow-up to the docudrama The Arbor continues the tradition of Britain’s kitchen sink socio-realism. Both devastating and compassionate, The Selfish Giant is a profound film on friendship and the class system.

After her flight gets delayed, Jessica finds herself stranded in Yorkshire. There, she books a room at a B&B run by a handsome widower.