Shell

Shell

2012 · 90 min · EN · 6.3 (42 votes)
Dir. Scott Graham · Starring Chloe Pirrie, Joseph Mawle, Michael Smiley, Iain De Caestecker, Kate Dickie, Morven Christie
Drama

Abandoned by her mother when she was a child, Shell has stayed to take care of her dying father but now feels trapped within the beautiful but desolate landscape that surrounds her. With only her routine of running the decaying petrol station, taking care of her father, and spending afternoons in her bedroom with a local mechanic, life is passing Shell by with every passing truck that rattles her walls. One day a salesman stops to re-fuel and offers Shell a taste of the outside world that takes her closer than ever to the edge of the road and her desire to escape.

VIBE

A hauntingly beautiful, yet suffocating portrait of a young woman trapped by duty and landscape. It's a slow, atmospheric descent into quiet desperation, punctuated by fleeting moments of longing for something more.

melancholicoppressiveyearningstarkslow-burnarthousecharacter-driven dramanaturalisticisolationdesire for escapefamilial dutycoming-of-age
parent child relationshipscotlandgas stationcoming of agehighlands
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