There have been plenty of conversation-starting films already this year. Look at the moral tangles presented in The Drama, or the relationship shake
There have been plenty of conversation-starting films already this year. Look at the moral tangles presented in The Drama, or the relationship shakedowns in The Invite. And in a few months, there’ll be another film sure to cause all kinds of chatter as audiences exit the cinema: Bad Apples. This one stars Saoirse Ronan as a teacher, Maria, who’s fed up with a particularly unruly student – and when a sequence of events spiral out of control, he ends up kidnapped by her. It’s an extremely dim set-up for a film that seems to have much mischief going on under the surface. Check out the trailer here:
Much to unpack, then! The premise of Bad Apples seems thrillingly knotty; there’s no way that kidnapping Danny is the right thing to do. And yet, is the class calmer without him? Has he simply messed around and found out? Will he learn more from 1-on-1 teachings with Maria (in, err, a dank basement)? And can Maria somehow let him go without sending her whole world crashing down? Does she deserve that? The film comes from director Jonatan Etzler, with a script from Jess O’Kane, adapting Rasmus Lindgren’s Swedish novel De Oönskade(translation: ‘The Unwanted’).
Bad Apples received positive reactions on the festival circuit last year, and finally comes to UK and US cinemas from September 18. Let the conversation commence!
