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Pin Cushion

2017

Deborah Haywood

Lily Newmark, Joanna Scanlan, Loris Scarpa, Sacha Cordy-Nice ...

6.2

126

Drama A mother, Lyn, and a daughter, Iona, are excited for their new life in a new town. Iona makes new friends and Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes a new friend, Belinda. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each other that things are going great, things aren’t going great for either of them. Iona struggles with her friends, who act more like frenemies than friends, and Belinda won’t give Lyn her stepladders back. Both Mother and Daughter ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"A moving, complex mother-daughter study (...) 'Pin Cushion' may be esoteric and uneven, but it’s not inauspicious (...) Stylistically overstuffed"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"The eccentric aesthetic is impressive (...) A moving meditation on what it feels like to be different, elevated by great work from Joanna Scanlan and newcomer Lily Newmark (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Elazar Fine The Playlist	"Haywood brilliantly subverts her audience’s expectations at every step of the way (...) It ushers in a new voice in cinema worth listening to"	POS
United Kingdom	Anna Smith Time Out	"Newcomer Lily Newmark shines (...) It’s a sensitive, assured film with characters you’ll warm to and root for (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Joanna Scanlan gives an outstanding – and terrifying – performance in a superb British indie that is one to admire rather than enjoy (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ed Potton The Times	"[It] is fatally torn between quirky comedy and bullying drama (...) The finale is so bleak and garish that it derails the film completely (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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