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  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • RLJ Entertainment
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • RLJ Entertainment
  • 1 h 24 m

Summary Gwen is a young girl desperately trying to hold her home together – struggling with her mother's mysterious illness, her father's absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching on their land. As a growing darkness begins to take grip of her home, the local community grows suspicious and turns on Gwen and her family.

Directed By: William McGregor

Written By: William McGregor

  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • RLJ Entertainment
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • RLJ Entertainment
  • 1 h 24 m

Gwen

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Gwen is a young girl desperately trying to hold her home together – struggling with her mother's mysterious illness, her father's absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching on their land. As a growing darkness begins to take grip of her home, the local community grows suspicious and turns on Gwen and her family.

Directed By: William McGregor

Written By: William McGregor

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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80
Jul 26, 2019
This is not social realism in the style of Ken Loach, but it is a film with a strong sense of outrage. Some might find it relentlessly bleak.
By Cath Clarke FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 16, 2019
For the most part, Gwen achieves what it sets out to do. It surrounds you in scenic hopelessness and lets you stew in it until you’re done, or Gwen’s done. By the end of this movie, somebody’s definitely done.
By Hunter Lanier FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 15, 2019
McGregor has a good command of horror’s visual and sonic cues.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
63
Aug 12, 2019
Gwen has the tenor of a spooky folk Welsh folk legend and the grasping, gasping punch of an Industrial Revolution parable.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 7, 2019
Approach the film with managed genre expectations, however, and there’s much to admire (and duly shiver over) in its formidable, stormcloud-hued atmospherics, low-simmer storytelling and a particularly fine, unaffected breakout performance by teenage actress Eleanor Worthington-Cox in the testing title role.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 26, 2019
As a genre exercise, the film starts promisingly enough, contrasting claustrophobic, dimly lit interiors with atmospheric wides of the landscape composed like moody paintings. Worthington-Cox is compelling, by turns twitchy, tentative, stoic and bold. Still, something isn’t clicking.
By Simran Hans FULL REVIEW

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Production Company BFI Film Fund, Bideford Productions, British Film Institute (BFI), Endor Productions, Ffilm Cymru Wales
Release Date Aug 16, 2019
Duration 1 h 24 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline The Dark Outside is Calling for Her
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Awards

Riviera International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Molins Film Festival
• 4 Nominations
BAFTA Awards, Wales
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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