
Bridgend
Over a 5-year period in Bridgend in Wales, 79 people, many of them teenagers, committed suicide without leaving any clue as to why. This is the starting point for this mysterious social drama.
- 5.3
- 2015
- Released
- 1h 44m

Hannah Murray
Sara
Josh O'Connor
Jamie
Steven Waddington
Dave
Adrian Rawlins
Vicar
Patricia Potter
Rachel
Nia Roberts
Thomas' Mother
Aled Llyr Thomas
Danny
Elinor Crawley
Laurel
Jamie Burch
Angus
Leona Vaughan
Grace
Scott Arthur
Thomas
Mark Charles Williams

Adam Byard

Liam Dascombe

Josh Dinneen

Rachel Isaac

Released
en
- #wales
- #adolescence
- #suicide
- #based on true story
- #magic realism
Reviews

There’s a documentary made a few years earlier that is way more informative about these events in Bridgend than this really quite messy dramatisation. This really centres around the relationship between the newly arrived “Sara” (Hannah Murray) whose dad “Dave” (Steven Waddington) is a police officer and “Jamie” (Josh O’Connor). The latter lad is a lifer in this town and quite possibly knows someth

Never leave town! Tricky. For anyone familiar with the very real instance about the spate of suicides that has blighted the Welsh county of Bridgend, then this film is likely to be a mixed viewing experience. For sure during the film one can't help but keep thinking about the real events, the theories and facts of such, so it's a little distracting because Jeppe Rønde's film demands the utmost











