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Hoard

2023

Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires, Nabil Elouahabi, Saura Lightfoot Leon, Deba Hekmat

Drama 1984, London: 7 year old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother. An older stranger, Michael, then enters their home, opening the door to past trauma, magic and madness.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Its pure vehemence and the commitment of its performances are arresting (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Josh Slater-Williams IndieWire	"Virtually everything Maria does is absurd, but it’s always believable thanks to Lightfoot Leon. She is the essential anchoring force for this film of warped beauty and fantasy as survival"
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"A strange and celestially pulled coming-of-age drama that plays out on enjoyably rattly retro turf (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Emma Kiely Collider	"It glosses over the heavy material it has thrown in your face to clumsily tie a stained bow on a gift that isn't wrapped"
		David Katz Cineuropa	"[It] is a homegrown, spirited affair, with its overflowing branches never pruned, and always studded with thorns"
		Ed Potton The Times	"Carmoon is very much her own film-maker —and in Lightfoot Leon she has found a leading lady with animalistic, inhibited presence (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Iana Murray Empire	"[It] might ultimately be too strange for its own good. Nevertheless, this debut boldly announces the arrival of one of Britain’s most promising new filmmakers (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"This visceral first feature from Luna Carmoon is, like its central character, unfettered, uninhibited and bracingly unusual"
		Sophie Monks Kaufman Time Out	"[It] heralds the arrival of a brilliantly strange new visionary (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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