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The Cement Garden

1992, Movie, NR, 101 mins

The Cement Garden: Review

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, ... read more leave a comment