Bypass is a 2014 British thriller drama film written and directed by Duane Hopkins. It premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival.
Plot
Cast George MacKay as Tim Benjamin Dilloway as Greg Charlotte Spencer as Lilly Donald Sumpter as Grandfather Matt Cross as Lester Anton Saunders as Fence Lara Peake as Helen Arabella Arnott as Mum Chanel Cresswell as Emily Barry Ward as the new supplier Nicola Stapleton as Samantha Adam Astill as the doctor
Release The film premiered at the 71st edition of the Venice Film Festival, in the Orizzonti sidebar. It was theatrically released in United Kingdom on 10 April 2015.
Reception
Variety described it as a "technically skilled but stylistically overwrought" film that "that remains oddly unmoving despite its surfeit of onscreen suffering". The Guardian called it a "overwrought yet convincing tale" which "hardly heads in search of fresh terrain", but "at least provides a brooding, increasingly potent spin around the familiar sights". The Hollywood Reporter described it as "a downer that could have used a few moments of levity as a breather from its artsy self-seriousness", yet "has an intensity that commands admiration".
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