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Small Deaths

  • 1996
  • 11m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
1.1K
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Small Deaths (1996)
DramaShort

Captures three occurrences in a young girl's life that leave her with a heavy heart.Captures three occurrences in a young girl's life that leave her with a heavy heart.Captures three occurrences in a young girl's life that leave her with a heavy heart.

  • Director
    • Lynne Ramsay
  • Writer
    • Lynne Ramsay
  • Stars
    • Anne McLean
    • James Ramsay
    • Lynne Ramsay Jr.
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    1.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Lynne Ramsay
    • Writer
      • Lynne Ramsay
    • Stars
      • Anne McLean
      • James Ramsay
      • Lynne Ramsay Jr.
    • 4User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination total

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    Anne McLean
    • Ma
    James Ramsay
    • Da
    Lynne Ramsay Jr.
    • Anne Marie (segment "Ma and Da")
    Genna Gillan
    • Anne Marie (segment "Holy Cow") (as Jenna Gillian)
    Jodie Macartney
    • Sister
    Thomas Mullen
    • Boy
    Ryan Rafferty
    • Boy
    Billy Fitzpatrick
    • Boy
    Andrew Rae
    • Boy
    Steven O'Rourke
    • Boy…
    Stevan Brennan
    • Boy
    • (as as Steven Brennan)
    Anne-Marie Kennedy
    • Anne Marie (segment "Joke")
    Ann Marie Lafferty
    • Junkie
    • (as Anne Marie Lafferty)
    Danny Hamilton
    • Boyfriend
    Steven Laden
    • Boy In Kitchen
    Stefan Strzelecki
    • Boy In Kitchen
    Duncan McNeill
    • Man In Kitchen
    • Director
      • Lynne Ramsay
    • Writer
      • Lynne Ramsay
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    8darren shan

    Ramsay's first

    Promising short feature, made by Lynne Ramsay as her graduation movie from film school. It covers 3 events in a girl's life. The first shows her as a very young girl watching her father get ready to go out for a night. In the second segment she's a teenager who witnesses a nasty incidence involving a cow. While in the third she's a young adult who goes to a creepy building with her boyfriend. He goes upstairs, leaving her to fidget nervously below. But then he calls to her ...

    Dark, intimate snippets of everyday life, lovingly captured. An impressive debut by the director of Ratcatcher. This immediately establishes the mood, focus and ambition of her later work. It won a prize at Cannes.
    8Hitchcoc

    Deaths Used in a Personal Sense

    The director uses a young girl viewing events in her life. They are from mundane to cruel. All three are painful in some way--sad or melancholy. One is quite violent. These are just slice of life kinds of things, showing us the harsh realities of every day life. A filmmaker feeling her way along.
    2adpm61

    zzzzzzzz

    11 minutes of pretentious boredom... A good experiment but vastly overpriced. 11 minutes when you want to move quickly in your life.

    I sat down to watch this well-prepared short film, but the slowness and torpor of the camera movement won me the battle. If you suffer from insomnia, this is your short!

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    • Trivia
      This short film is featured on the Criterion Collection DVD for Ratcatcher (1999).
    • Connections
      Featured in Quiet Mysteries: Lynne Ramsay on Ratcatcher (2021)

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    • Release date
      • May 1996 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Маленькие смерти
    • Production company
      • National Film and Television School (NFTS)
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    • Runtime
      11 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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