In all truth I came by this film due to the fact that I was actually a boarder at the school where this was filmed! Spent 5 years there (MANY moons ago), and ultimately the school closed, so me and a ton of other former-pupils were doing the rounds to watch the movie and see our old school!
I then noticed that Maisie Williams and Florence Pugh were in it, so had SOME degree of expectation.
As an ex-Director myself, I can whole-heartedly say that this was the worst directing I have ever seen. Period! The shot selection and scene setting (of which there was almost none) was frankly dreadful and in truth - amateurish.
The story itself lacked ANY sense of position, location, scene setting, plot - I could go on...
It is totally beyond me what the BFI were thinking when they agreed to fund this piece of simply utter rubbish.
I then noticed that Maisie Williams and Florence Pugh were in it, so had SOME degree of expectation.
As an ex-Director myself, I can whole-heartedly say that this was the worst directing I have ever seen. Period! The shot selection and scene setting (of which there was almost none) was frankly dreadful and in truth - amateurish.
The story itself lacked ANY sense of position, location, scene setting, plot - I could go on...
It is totally beyond me what the BFI were thinking when they agreed to fund this piece of simply utter rubbish.