Pram Snatcher
2022 · 13m · UK
Directed by Theo James Krekis
Genres: crime, dark comedy, drama
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, tense
A heavily pregnant criminal and her volatile partner make for a remote Scottish service station off the A90 for one final job, testing whether their bond — and their resolve — will survive the night.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Krekis locates something genuinely Pinteresque in a petrol-station crime caper — effortless wit and formal control from a director with a clear sense of where British social realism can still go.
Pregnant criminal, Scottish service station, one last job — Michael Socha and a Lynne Ramsay comparison floated against Shane Meadows. If the tenderness lands without sentiment, this is the kind of British grit I'll defend.
Pregnancy hanging over a botched crime story without deflating either register — Michael Socha and a Scottish service station off the A90 is a specific kind of British social-realist crime tone. BFI London Film Festival selection.
Festivals
- BFI London Film Festival 2022
- London Short Film Festival 2023