A morose adaptation of English writer Ian McEwan's 1978 novel about sibling incest, THE CEMENT GARDEN is a dispassionate look at the collapse into self-sufficient amorality of four siblings cut loose from the bonds of social and parental authority.
In an isolated house, 15-year-old Jack (Andrew Robertson) chafes at the authoritarian bullying of his father (Hans Zischler) and indulges his own frustrated sexuality, masturbating and fantasizing obsessively. His older sister, Julie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), is clever and enigmatic; youngsters
Sue (Alice Coultard) and Tom (Ned Birkin), 11 and 7 years old, barely figure in Jack's world at all. Their gentle, ineffectua...
Released:
1992
Rated:
NR
Length:
101 mins