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Poster for Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

PG90 mins|92%63%
In the hands of the experimental theater...
In the hands of the experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel about the primitivism lurking beneath civilisation becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of the Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters' ids.
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