Like becalmed invaders from space, cooling towers loom over the sour meadows outside Bradford in England. A mist is gathered in the air and it matches the hum of a nearby power station. But sheep and ...

A contemporary fable thematically adapted from an Oscar Wilde short story and inspired by the world writer/director Clio Barnard entered while filming her documentary The Arbor in Bradford, Northern ...

belongs to that category of great (or nearly great) films that you probably won’t ever want to watch again. As a tragically tinged tale of childhood poverty and woe, set in the northern half of the ...

Non-pro teen newcomers Conner Chapman and Shaun Thomas star in writer-director Clio Barnard's second feature, a British drama competing in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar. By THR Staff The Selfish ...

26/07/2013 - British Clio Barnard’s second film, presented during the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, poses questions on the border between help and opportunism. Far from the fantastical universe of ...

'The Arbor' helmer Clio Barnard's voice comes through loud and clear in this demanding but eminently distributable art film Fans of the barely classifiable “The Arbor,” a biopic of working-class ...

In a modern reimagining of Wilde’s classic tale, schoolchildren find refuge in a beautiful garden, but when a snarling, ginger-haired giant arrives, he angrily chases the children away and builds a ...

Talented newcomers Conner Chapman and Shaun Thomas (pictured below right) play Arbor and Swifty - two teenagers with dysfunctional domestic lives and poor prospects, getting themselves into scrapes in ...