POV - Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go . Trailer | PBS

Broadcasting on PBS: July 28, 2009
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By Kim Longinotto

"Variety" describes it as a film "mixing ferocity with tenderness, delicacy with tenacity" — exactly like the unusual school it explores. In "Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go," one of Britain's leading documentary filmmakers takes a verité look at Oxford's Mulberry Bush School for emotionally disturbed children. Mulberry's heroically forbearing staff greets extreme, sometimes violent behavior with only consolation and gentle restraint. Kim Longinotto's unblinking camera captures an arduous process and a nearly unhinged environment, but it also records the daily dramas of troubled kids trying to survive and the moments of hope they achieve with Mulberry's clear-eyed staff.

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Film & Animation

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• kim longinotto
• disturbed children
• violent children
• education
• child abuse
• troubled kids
• alternative education

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