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Dragonfly 2025 Movie Review Trailer Poster

 Paul Andrew Williams's feature debut was London to Brighton (2006), but the British director has never been much interested in capital cities. His latest feature, Dragonfly, is another example of this, a dark, understated drama about how the unnoticed lives of suburbanites can generate surprising headlines. In a straightforward way, it's a sister film to his provocative 2010 home invasion film, Cherry Tree Lane, in which, anticipating Adolescence, the humdrum life of a middle-class couple is turned upside down when they are inexplicably attacked by violent, unruly teenagers for no apparent reason. In reality, however, and despite the bloodshed both on and off screen, it turns out to be more similar to the film Williams directed in 2012. Titled Song for Marion, it starred Terence Stamp as an emotionally withdrawn widower who joins a choir to pay tribute to his late wife (Vanessa Redgrave).  Director: Paul Andrew Williams Writer: Paul Andrew Williams Stars: Andrea Riseborough, ...