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Genres:
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Drama /
Fantasy /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Director:
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Nicolas Roeg
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Actors:
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Rita Tushingham,
Tina Kellegher,
Oscar Pearce,
Leona Igoe,
Pat Deery,
Elaine Gormley,
Suzanne McAuley,
Caoimhe McErlean,
Declan Reynolds,
Dan Weldon,
Kelly Reilly,
Miranda Richardson,
William Houston,
Donald Sutherland
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Duration:
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115 min.
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Rating:
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(4.3/10)101.5
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Plot Summary:
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Potent dark forces are unleashed when a young architect (Kelly Reilly) becomes pregnant after motile to an lonely and mystical valley to build a harbour. And when the neighbouring farmers take against the unborn child, it's her entirely survival that is threatened.
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Puffball
A young architect renovating a country cottage falls pregnant and provokes the ire of her rural neighbours who are desperate for a child. Drama with supernatural undertones from legendary British director Nicolas Roeg, adapted from the novel by Fay Weldon
By rights, a new film from Nicolas Roeg should be a major national event. Forever defined by his 1970s run of near and actual masterpieces - Performance, Walkabout, Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth, Roeg's shape-shifting narratives teem with fractured identity, heady eroticism and genuine otherworldliness.
He and his work are defiantly sui generis, very un-British, which is perhaps why he, like another singular UK director Terence Davies, remains the proverbial prophet without honour (or at least suff...
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