

Hoard

The story follows Maria – a teenager whose mother used to be a hoarder. Now (set in the 90s) she lives in a foster home where a previous resident, Michael, inspires her to revisit the childhood memories and passions that she has repressed.
The story follows Maria – a teenager whose mother used to be a hoarder. Now (set in the 90s) she lives in a foster home where a previous resident, Michael, inspires her to revisit the childhood memories and passions that she has repressed.
[Filmin] Committed to a texture of memory that reproduces life in its most absurd aspects, the provocative nature of this film is enthralling, even when it seems to overstep its boundaries. The director vindicates British cinema of the seventies and eighties, and a need to move away from conventional representations of poverty. Through an extravagant and sensorial relationship, involving smells, tastes and touches, she manages to make the story a rather visceral sample of the ways in which childhood traumas are represented in an adolescence that needs to explore itself.
[Filmin] Committed to a texture of memory that reproduces life in its most absurd aspects, the provocative nature of this film is enthralling, even when it seems to overstep its boundaries. The director vindicates British cinema of the seventies and eighties, and a need to move away from conventional representations of poverty. Through an extravagant and sensorial relationship, involving smells, tastes and touches, she manages to make the story a rather visceral sample of the ways in which childhood traumas are represented in an adolescence that needs to explore itself.