EARWIG
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▶ RELEASED10 JUNE
TBC
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114 minutes
▶ Director Lucile Hadzihalilovic
▶ Cast Paul Hilton, Romane Hemelaers, Romola Garai, Peter Van den Begin
➔ Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s adaptation of Brian Catling’s 2019 surrealist novel is an inscrutable, intoxicating mood piece. Albert (Paul Hilton) is a guardian tasked with watching over Mia (Romane Hemelaers), a young girl with dentures made of ice that must be regularly and painfully replaced. When a call from Albert’s master informs him that she should be prepared to leave in 13 days time, their strange, isolated existence starts to come apart at the seams.