Cracks

Cracks

2009 · 104 min · EN · R · 6.6 (458 votes)
Dir. Jordan Scott · Starring Eva Green, Juno Temple, María Valverde, Imogen Poots, Ellie Nunn, Adele McCann · Music Javier Navarrete

“Innocence isn't lost. It's taken.”

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Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

VIBE

An elite boarding school setting breeds simmering tensions and dark obsessions. The film feels suffocatingly intimate, exploring forbidden desires and the psychological toll of repression. It's a slow, creeping dread that lingers long after the credits roll.

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