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Cracks (2009)
Director: Jordan Scott
Movie review
From Time Out Online
As Ridley’s daughter, Scott probably got filmmaking manuals to chew on as a baby and her first directing effort demonstrates their effect. All 1930s films, apparently, must be achingly slow and set to strings-heavy classical – even when they contain a short, silly and thoroughly predictable tale of a fantasist teacher at an island-based girls school, the students who adore her and the Spanish girl who turns up and spoils things. Casting sultry French actress Green as an English island hick was just the first error; thereafter they pile up like bead necklaces round a wannabe flapper’s neck, eventually strangling the film.Author: Nina Caplan
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2009
Cast & crew
Director: Jordan Scott
Cast: Eva Green, Juno Temple, Mariá Valverde, Sinead Cusack full cast
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 104 mins
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