Three teenage boys are led into violence and temptation on a journey that will shock their sleepy community yet also express its deepest jealousies and divisions. The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael is a brutal and unflinchingly honest portrayal of life in a post-9/11 world. Filmed in long stylised takes the narrative is elliptical and poetic yet infused with a dark and ironic wit.
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Debut feature from director Thomas Clay offering an uncompromising insight into bored and disaffected youth in modern Britain. Robert (Dan Spencer) is a gifted young musician, but his social awkwardness puts him at odds with those around him at school and at home. He is naturally attracted to the 'wrong crowd', led by Larry (Danny Dyer), and is drawn into a world of drugs and deviancy that explodes in a shocking act of sexual violence. The film was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
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