The Poet and the Bear
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Director Brian Philip Davis Duration Language English | 6.8/10 IMDb Writer Barry Falls Genres Short Film, Thriller Country Northern Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Poet and the Bear (2006) is the second short film by Brian Philip Davis, a graduate of the University of Ulster in Belfast, about an art school dreamer.
Ruth's dreams of leaving her childhood home in rural Northern Ireland for the excitement and culture of Europe's finest Art College take a surreal and frightening twist.
Plot
Ruth is a seventeen-year-old girl in rural Northern Ireland, torn between the comfortable trappings of her childhood home, and dreams of a more exciting and culturally satisfying life. Enchanted by the romantic writings of French Poet Arthur Rimbaud, she awaits the results of her application to the best art college in Europe - the Paris School of Art. On the night before she receives news from the college, things then take a decidedly strange twist.
References
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