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The Ceremony
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- 2024
- Jack King
- 91 mins
- 15
Summary
Two troubled migrant workers in a Bradford car wash are dragged into an escalating moral crisis as night falls. Drama.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
Rosie Fletcher
Romanian man Cristi (Tudor Cucu-Dumitrescu) and Kurdish man Yusuf (Erdal Yildiz) take a trip into the Yorkshire countryside to dispose of a body in this Bafta-nominated drama from debut feature director Jack King. Exactly how the pair will get rid of the body is the main question - Cristi wants to throw the late Nassar, his former friend, into a well. However, Yusuf, despite not having had a personal relationship with the man, insists he must be buried. Shot in monochrome, the film's landscapes are both beautiful and foreboding, as is everything about this challenging but heart-wrenching movie. It offers a quiet meditation on what it means to be a person when you have nothing, and are deemed by society to have no value - the deceased died by his own hand and his only contacts are illegal immigrants. Displacement, past trauma and individual morality come into question in this gorgeous, slow-burn but at times still dizzying treatise on nothing less than life, death and humanity. Tough but worth it.
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Cast
rolenameCristiTudor Cucu-DumitrescuYusufErdal YildizNassarMo'min SwaitatFarmerLiam ThomasMustafaMustafa Husseini
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rolenameDirectorJack King
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Theatrical distributor
Tull Stories
Released on
2025-08-22
Languages
English | Arabic | Kurdish | Romanian
Guidance
Violence, swearing, sexual references, discriminatory language
Formats
Black and white
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