Movie Review: BRIDGEND (UK/Denmark 2015) ***

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bridgendBRIDGEND (UK/Denmark 2015) ***

Directed by Jeppe Ronde

Starring: Hannah Murray, Josh O’Connor, Adrian Rawlins

Review by Gilbert Seah

BRIDGEND is the name of a Welsh town in Bridgend County in south west Wales. It is a beautiful town and the setting of the new English language Danish film photographed by Magnus Nordenhof Jønck and directed by Jeppe Ronde. If I knew how stunning the area was, I would have visited the place when I vacationed in Wales two years. ago.

But it is not the beauty of the town that is on display here. The beauty contrasts with dark goings-on that cannot be explained. Between December 2007 and January 2012 seventy-nine suicides were officially committed in the area. Most of the victims were teenagers, they hanged themselves and left no suicide notes. Danish documentary filmmaker Jeppe…

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