A day in the life of an eight-year-old soccer fan who has to come to terms with living in a strange new town and the loss of his father.
Direction
Daldry's early command of child's-eye sorrow.
Cinematography
Bleached Brit summer that feels like a fading photo.
Director
Stephen Daldry
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Daldry made this before his stage hit 'An Inspector Calls' and his Billy Elliot fame.
The film's refusal to show the father's death mirrors how children experience loss — as absence, not event.
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