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The War Zone (1999)
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As unflinching and bleak as it is beautiful, Tim Roth's directorial debut, The War Zone, is remarkably accomplished filmmaking. Adapted by Alexander Stuart from his own novel, the film centers on a family that has just moved from London to the wind-swept English seaside during winter. The relative isolation soon reveals an ongoing incestuous relationship between the working-class father (Ray Winstone) and his 17-year-old-daughter, Jessie. The middle-class mother (Tilda Swinton) has just given birth to their third child and desperately avoids knowing the truth, leaving Tom, the younger brother, with the horrific responsibility of...
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| The War Zone Movie Review by Jarrod (9/16/2007) |
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'The War Zone' is a film of heartbreaking intensity, disturbing and grim, devoid of happiness or optimism. It deals frankly and graphically with the subject of incest, and that alone makes it difficult to watch, but we must confront the ugliness of it along with the young protagonist, Tom (Freddie Cunliffe), who witnesses...
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