Film Shapes

The British Film Festival is upon us again and it looks purely belter this year. The preview film at Palace Raine Square was a teacher's nightmare called Bad Apples . Note the plural, not one bad apple but many. The film opens with a bunch of primary school kids on a tour of a cider house, presumably in order to highlight the analogy, as we see loads of apples on their way along conveyer belts. One lark, Danny (Eddie Waller) has lost his shoe in the machinery, causing frazzled teacher Maria (Saoirse Ronan) to lose her shit. Less anger than anguish, to be fair, as it unfolds that this wrong'un has been boiling her piss all year. Back at school the next day, Danny sends a girl to hospital, and gets suspended. Maria needs to make sure he doesn't come to school, primarily to avoid the government Ofsted inspector, so she goes to visit his dad. He's clearly strung out as well, so isn't much help. On her way back to her car, she confronts Danny and this is starting to rea...