The writers introduce memorable supporting players, such
as jailbird photography teacher (Alberto Ammann), and a classmate of Anna with both emotional and physical scars (Antonia Clarke).
In the middle of his speech at the last assembly of the year, Robbie Weirdicht (Johnson), an awkward, overweight, overlooked kid, is thrown into the gym, naked
as a jailbird, by a group of bullies.
A stark, brutal, yet tender prison drama starring Jack O'Connell as a violent inmate sent to the same lock - up
as his jailbird father (Ben Mendelsohn), the film's shot through with a raw energy and authenticity that's closer to «A Prophet» than to most other British films in the genre, with Mackenzie making the movie feel like he's bottled up a hurricane of tension, which at any second could kick through the screen at you and hit you with a sock full of snooker balls.
Not exact matches
Verlaine himself happened to be about
as cursed
as they come: alcoholic, wife beater, child abuser,
jailbird, syphilitic, down - and - outer.
One notable film that has been announced
as Belgium's selection is Michaël R. Roskam's Racer and the
Jailbird.
Adele Exarchopoulos
as Bibi and Matthias Schoenaerts
as Gigi deliver solid performances in «Racer and the
Jailbird.»
So when Pearson, after being rocked by the death of his unrepentant
jailbird uncle (Danny Glover), has his revelation, it's to say that all people who have not been «saved» (i.e. accepted Jesus
as their savior, i.e. given themselves to this specific Christianity) are not going to hell — that in fact there is no such place
as hell, that a just and loving God wouldn't send people to hell — it's not exactly a bold and liberal stance.
Variety is reporting that «Racer And The
Jailbird» has been selected
as Belgium's Oscar submission in the he foreign - language Oscar race.
The absence of Deniz Gamze Erguven (Kings) and Michael Roskam (The Racer and the
Jailbird), both bandied about
as possible comp titles, make us wonder if they'll show up here.
The Toronto International Film Festival announced that «Racer And The
Jailbird» has been selected for their film festival
as part of their special presentation program.
It doesn't take long before Gigi and Bibi's bodies are intertwined,
as «Racer and the
Jailbird» proudly acknowledges the sexiness of its leads.
«Homosexual and
jailbird, was he nevertheless
as bad
as he was painted?