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Shell

Name: Shell
Released: 2012
Rating: 55.99
Cast: Morven Christie, Kate Dickie, Tam Dean Burn, Michael Smiley, Joseph Mawle

2012

Drama

1h 31m

Set in a striking vision of the wild Scottish Highlands, it features a star-making performance from newcomer Chloe Pirrie as Shell, a teenager living in a remote service station with her father Pete (Joseph Mawle), a dour, damaged shadow of a man. Shell is as alive as the howling wind and as glowing as the pale moonlight.

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2012

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1h 31m

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Wezzo

Rated 23 Jan 2014

Plaintive, introspective and thoughtful drama set at a petrol station in the Scottish highlands. Sparse countryside and lonely people - a father and daughter - take center stage here, and the film is less story than ruminative contemplation of two broken people looking for connection and failing to find it.

Rated 23 Jan 2014

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Cercle_Rouge

Rated 18 May 2020

For all the wide open spaces, this is quite a claustrophobic film: lonely lives trapped in a lonely landscape. In some ways it fits in a lineage of dour British social realism, but it is a bit stranger than that might suggest, and is distinguished by its unusual setting and strong performances, especially by Chloe Pirrie.

Rated 18 May 2020

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mandy

Rated 29 Aug 2014

Compelling and strangely disturbing - it captures the bleak loneliness of such an existence.

Rated 29 Aug 2014

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tinysausage

Rated 14 Jul 2013

This makes good use of the lonely setting and the use of sound is effective, but there wasn't really enough meat on the story to hang a whole film on.

Rated 14 Jul 2013

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