It's a typical Sundance film, and the independent film festival has awarded it the Grand Jury Prize. Scrapper, the first film by British director Charlotte Regan, is due in cinemas on January 10.
And for this first film, Charlotte Regan stoops to child's level to follow the journey of twelve-year-old Georgie, played by Lola Campbell. Following the death of her mother, the pre-teen now lives alone in the family home, pretending to everyone that her uncle has come to look after her. She pays her bills by selling the bikes she steals and intends to live the rest of her life this way, but a man posing as her father arrives to turn her life upside down.
Jason, the absent father played by Harris Dickinson(Sans Filtre), is awkward, but wants to get to know Georgie, and she rejects him outright. So begins a game of taming between the two, in which each must learn to live with the other. Over the course of its very short running time (barely 1h20), the filmmaker takes a fresh look, and despite a few directorial blunders (notably a soft underbelly, which suggests that the film would have been a great short), Charlotte Regan establishes herself as a filmmaker to watch. With the help of cinematographer Molly Manning Walker(How to have sex), the two filmmakers seem to be taking independent cinema by storm, and imposing their singular style. In Scrapper, it's revealed in pretty, colorful frames that look as if they've stepped straight out of a comic-book frame.
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