Bridgend (2015)
Directed by Jeppe Rønde
Over a 5-year period in Bridgend in Wales, 79 people, many of them teenagers, committed suicide without leaving any clue as to why. This is the starting point for this mysterious social drama.
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What critics compared Bridgend to
It’s reminiscent of Justin Kurzel’s Snowtown or Tim Hunter’s River’s Edge in how it drops viewers up to their eyeballs into a world of pure apathy, and the result is a film that makes it difficult to connect with.
Though “Bridgend” is no horror movie, the emotionally unsettling aspects of the film, while subtle, do recall the shocking response to Ben Wheatley’s “Kill List,” or, to a lesser extent, recent Sundance spooker, “The Witch.”