Playground

9/4/2025

This is one of those films that has you shouting at the screen! “Nora” (Maya Vanderbeque) intervenes when her older brother “Abel” (Günter Duret) is routinely getting his hair washed in a toilet bowl, but the results of her actions merely serve to alienate her from her brother whilst having fairly profound effects on both their behaviour at school and to each other, of of that of their friends to them. It’s a cycle of toxicity that really proves the rule about no good deed going unpunished. Parents get involved, teachers get involved - but is anything going to actually get any better? Both of the leading kids deliver potently here and she, especially, exudes an emotionally charged characterisation of a girl determined to stick up for her elder sibling regardless of the impact that may have