Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
Director Kim Longinotto
Countries
Duration 109 min
Synopsis
The Mulberry Bush School in Oxfordshire is a boarding school where children are sent when other institutions are no longer able to contain them. It has 40 children and 108 staff, a ratio that seems generous until you see how the staff has to put up the beatings, kicking and insults from these children with severe emotional trauma. Excluded from school for extreme behaviour, and often coming from dysfunctional families, they are given three years at the Oxford boarding school to try to turn their lives around. The children slam from one emotional extreme to another, but can also, from time to time, express some tenderness.
The Mulberry Bush School in Oxfordshire is a boarding school where children are sent when other institutions are no longer able to contain them. It has 40 children and 108 staff, a ratio that seems generous until you see how the staff has to put up the beatings, kicking and insults from these children with severe emotional trauma. Excluded from school for extreme behaviour, and often coming from dysfunctional families, they are given three years at the Oxford boarding school to try to turn their lives around. The children slam from one emotional extreme to another, but can also, from time to time, express some tenderness.