Bridgend

There’s a documentary made a few years earlier that is way more informative about these events in Bridgend than this really quite messy dramatisation. This really centres around the relationship between the newly arrived “Sara” (Hannah Murray) whose dad “Dave” (Steven Waddington) is a police officer and “Jamie” (Josh O’Connor). The latter lad is a lifer in this town and quite possibly knows someth...

Never leave town! Tricky. For anyone familiar with the very real instance about the spate of suicides that has blighted the Welsh county of Bridgend, then this film is likely to be a mixed viewing experience. For sure during the film one can't help but keep thinking about the real events, the theories and facts of such, so it's a little distracting because Jeppe Rønde's film demands the utmost ...