A woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer match.
Acting
Michelle Williams' raw, unraveling physicality.
Direction
Maguire's invasive close-ups that refuse comfort.
Writing
The unsentimental voiceover that judges its own protagonist.
Director
Sharon Maguire
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sharon Maguire directed Bridget Jones's Diary; this was her deliberate pivot to 'unwatchable' intimacy.
Released months before the 7/7 London bombings inquest, it was criticized as exploitative and withdrawn from some UK festivals.
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