‘Urchin’ Review: Frank Dillane Is a Self-Destructive Car Crash in Harris Dickinson’s Impressive Directing Debut

'Urchin' Review: Harris Dickinson's Directorial Debut Is a Devastating, Delicate Drama

When you’re a film critic who sees film after film and reviews them over the course of a busy festival, there can be a tendency to leave yourself out of the picture in order to prioritize being more analytical and detached about what it is you’re seeing. There is no doing that with actor Harris Dickinson’s debut feature “Urchin.” A drama about a man who goes from living on the streets of London to trying to start his life over again and break fr…

‘Urchin’ Review: Harris Dickinson’s Bracing Directorial Debut Offers a Modern Riff on Mike Leigh’s ‘Naked’

Cannes: "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" star Frank Dillane is brilliant as a homeless London drug addict who struggles to escape the cycle of his own behavior.

‘Urchin’ Review: Frank Dillane Is a Self-Destructive Car Crash in Harris Dickinson’s Impressive Directing Debut

Harris Dickinson's debut as writer-director, 'Urchin,' stars Frank Dillane as an unhoused Londoner stuck in a pattern of addiction and homelessness.

‘Urchin’ Review: Harris Dickinson’s Feature Debut Starring Frank Dillane Is Earnest Yet Unsteady

Being unhoused is often associated with the idea of roughness: rough sleeping, having it rough, going through a rough patch. Yet, Frank Dillane’s Mike embodies a contrasting elegance. His delicate limbs tuck tightly against a slender frame when night comes, his contained body quietly lying atop a makeshift bed wrangled with flat cardboard boxes and a thin layer of fabric. This beautiful, angular man is the central character in Harris Dickinson’s…

'Urchin' Review - Harris Dickinson’s Brave Directorial Debut is a Home Run

Actor Harris Dickinson's feature directorial debut, Urchin, is a powerful and poignant story about the vicious cycle of social inequality in East London. The post ‘Urchin’ Review – Harris Dickinson’s Brave Directorial Debut is a Home Run | Cannes 2025 appeared first on DiscussingFilm.

Cannes 2025: Harris Dickinson's Film 'Urchin' is an Impressive Debut

Stuck sleeping on the street, with no one to turn to for help, nowhere to go... How can you pull yourself back together in this situation? How does one get out of this rut? The next actor trying their hand at directing is the very talented British youngster Harris Dickinson (of Triangle of Sadness, The Iron Claw, Babygirl, Scrapper, Blitz). His feature directorial debut is a movie titled Urchin, premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the…