Shell is a 17-year-old woman who lives and works at a petrol station in the desolate Scottish Highlands. Apart from the occasional customers who call by for fuel and a few regulars who acknowledge and catch up with her Shell's only company is her reserved and softly spoken father Pete (Joseph Mawle) to whom she is devoted. A young girl trying to find her place in the world she is on the cusp of womanhood struggling to re-imagine her role within her own family and life in general. Pete meanwhile is damaged goods. He still keenly feels the absence of his wife... who ran away when Shell was four while his connection with his daughter is both difficult and disturbing. An assured debut feature starring Joseph Mawle and newcomer Chloe Pirrie Shell marks the arrival of Scottish writer-director Scott Graham as a distinctive new voice in British cinema. Special Features: Short Film Behind the scenes Trailer [show more]
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Scott Graham's directorial debut examines the intense relationship between a father and daughter living a secluded life in the Highlands of Scotland. Ever since her mother walked out on the family when she was a young girl, 17-year-old Shell (Chloe Pirrie) has lived with her epileptic, emotionally-damaged father, Pete (Joseph Mawle), helping to run their remote petrol station-cum-breakdown yard in an area of the Highlands known as the 'Great Wilderness'. A bright girl, but with underlying issues, Shell's refusal to acknowledge the advances of locals Hugh and Adam (Michael Smiley and Iain De Caestecker) in favour of her dad's company, signals potential problems ahead. Her horizons are unexpectedly widened, however, when a chance meeting with an Edinburgh couple results in her receiving a copy of Carson McCullers' novel 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter', an exploration of alienation and loneliness in 1930s America.
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