Adolescence (2025)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.00:1 TV Mini Series 240m
Director: Philip Barantini
Cast: Stephen Graham, Dale Cooper, Ashley Walters, Faye Marsay, Jo Hartley, Christine Tremarco
Synopsis:
Police arrest a 13 year-old boy on suspicion of murder. The family and school are overwhelmed, even the pre-trial psychologist is shaken. Social media misuse is at the heart of it.
Review:
We are used to stories of knife crime as a reality in schools and in certain sections of the public. Graham and Jack Thorne's script raised the stakes by presenting a happy and supportive family from a housing estate as its setting, as if to say, 'Parents, wake up!' The four one-hour sequence shots that make up the film deal with different stages in the processing (in both senses) of Jamie's crime. Certain points seem overplayed, and the endless following around through corridors and so forth can become laboured, but overall it is an extraordinary feat of acting and planning that recalls the same creator's Boiling Point. In one shot we go from a static mid shot via drone to an aerial shot, coming to earth a few blocks away to the murder site and then back again.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.00:1 TV Mini Series 240m
Director: Philip Barantini
Cast: Stephen Graham, Dale Cooper, Ashley Walters, Faye Marsay, Jo Hartley, Christine Tremarco
Synopsis:
Police arrest a 13 year-old boy on suspicion of murder. The family and school are overwhelmed, even the pre-trial psychologist is shaken. Social media misuse is at the heart of it.
Review:
We are used to stories of knife crime as a reality in schools and in certain sections of the public. Graham and Jack Thorne's script raised the stakes by presenting a happy and supportive family from a housing estate as its setting, as if to say, 'Parents, wake up!' The four one-hour sequence shots that make up the film deal with different stages in the processing (in both senses) of Jamie's crime. Certain points seem overplayed, and the endless following around through corridors and so forth can become laboured, but overall it is an extraordinary feat of acting and planning that recalls the same creator's Boiling Point. In one shot we go from a static mid shot via drone to an aerial shot, coming to earth a few blocks away to the murder site and then back again.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.00:1 TV Mini Series 240m
Director: Philip Barantini
Cast: Stephen Graham, Dale Cooper, Ashley Walters, Faye Marsay, Jo Hartley, Christine Tremarco
Synopsis:
Police arrest a 13 year-old boy on suspicion of murder. The family and school are overwhelmed, even the pre-trial psychologist is shaken. Social media misuse is at the heart of it.
Review:
We are used to stories of knife crime as a reality in schools and in certain sections of the public. Graham and Jack Thorne's script raised the stakes by presenting a happy and supportive family from a housing estate as its setting, as if to say, 'Parents, wake up!' The four one-hour sequence shots that make up the film deal with different stages in the processing (in both senses) of Jamie's crime. Certain points seem overplayed, and the endless following around through corridors and so forth can become laboured, but overall it is an extraordinary feat of acting and planning that recalls the same creator's Boiling Point. In one shot we go from a static mid shot via drone to an aerial shot, coming to earth a few blocks away to the murder site and then back again.