
Dirt
2018


“A ritual for the dead. A reckoning for the living.”
6 votes
Two troubled migrant workers in a Bradford car wash are dragged into an escalating moral crisis as night falls. Each of them carries private hopes, traumas, and beliefs shaped by their diverse cultures. The two men must find a way to work out their differences if they're to stand any chance of saving themselves and their sanity.
Status
Released
Original Language
Arabic
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There is a lot of potency in this monochrome drama, but I felt that somehow it managed to succumb to a style over substance philosophy rather than a more characterful one. Essentially it’s the story of a younger Christian Romanian lad “Cristi” (Tudor Cucu-Dumitrescu) who having had an altercation over a stolen watch with some of his Bradford car-wash workers, has to head into the wintry bleakness of the Yorkshire Dales with the elderly Kurdish gent “Yusuf” (Erdal Yildiz) to dispose of a body. Unfamiliar and initially distrustful of each other, the two men’s journey into the darkness offers the…
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