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Clean, Shaven (1994)

Clean, Shaven poster
Directed by
Lodge Kerrigan
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 19m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 103 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man with schizophrenia tries to reunite with his daughter. The film shows his distorted experience of the world.

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What happens

Clean, Shaven is a 1993 drama film written, produced and directed by Lodge Kerrigan, in which Peter Winter (played by Peter Greene) is a man with schizophrenia desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive mother. The film attempts to subjectively view schizophrenia and those who are affected by it. At the 1993 Chicago Film Festival, the film won the Silver Hugo Award for Best First Feature. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section and nominated for the Caméra d'Or award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Clean, Shaven was made a part of The Criterion Collection in 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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