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‘Urchin’ Review: Harris Dickinson’s Knockout Directorial Debut Creates High Art From A Low, Sad Life – Cannes Film Festival
‘Urchin’ review: Harris Dickinson’s knockout directorial debut creates high art from a low, sad life – Cannes Film Festival.
Built around a charismatic performance from Frank Dillane, best known for his role as recovering heroin addict Nick Clark in AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead, Harris Dickinson ’s remarkable feature debut takes the tropes of socially conscious British cinema and fashions a deceptively nuanced cautionary tale that isn’t so much about the failings of that society as our own personal capacity for self-destruction. And then, before you know it, Michael is out of captivity and back in society, encouraged by sympathetic social worker Nadia, who finds him a hostel, and employed by Franco, the kind-hearted manager of a hotel that we hear described by its guests as “a shithole,” who offers him work as a prep cook in his kitchen. Title: Urchin Festival: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) Director-screenwriter: Harris Dickinson Cast: Frank Dillane, Megan Northam, Amr Waked, Karyna Khymchuk, Shonagh Marie Sales agent: Charades Running time: 1 hr 39 min
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