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Urchin
Actor Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut (Babygirl, In the Triangle, soon to be seen as John Lennon in Sam Mendes’s blockbuster about The Beatles) left the French Riviera with the Best Actor award and the FIPRESCI Prize in the Un Certain Regard section.
The titular Urchin, brilliantly portrayed by Frank Dillane, is a young Londoner fighting a daily battle for survival. He spends his days on the street or at friends’ apartments, constantly searching for even a makeshift shelter—a place where he could leave his belongings and feel safe for a moment.
When a stranger extends a helping hand to him, Mike decides to seize the opportunity. Dickinson’s protagonist can be subtle and innocent, full of a charm reminiscent of boyish immaturity, only to transform in an instant into a predator and a manipulator.
In the small, slender figure of Mike, the actor captures childish anger, youthful carefreeness, and a tremendous hunger for intimacy, but also aggression that erupts at the most unexpected moments.
Urchin is a tribute to the cinema of Mike Leigh, and at the same time to classic British films in the vein of the “angry young men”—a cinema in which tenderness and humor go hand in hand with careful observation and incisive criticism of social relations.
The titular Urchin, brilliantly portrayed by Frank Dillane, is a young Londoner fighting a daily battle for survival. He spends his days on the street or at friends’ apartments, constantly searching for even a makeshift shelter—a place where he could leave his belongings and feel safe for a moment.
When a stranger extends a helping hand to him, Mike decides to seize the opportunity. Dickinson’s protagonist can be subtle and innocent, full of a charm reminiscent of boyish immaturity, only to transform in an instant into a predator and a manipulator.
In the small, slender figure of Mike, the actor captures childish anger, youthful carefreeness, and a tremendous hunger for intimacy, but also aggression that erupts at the most unexpected moments.
Urchin is a tribute to the cinema of Mike Leigh, and at the same time to classic British films in the vein of the “angry young men”—a cinema in which tenderness and humor go hand in hand with careful observation and incisive criticism of social relations.