The Little Match Girl

A quiet, heartbreaking fable that wraps you in cold and longing, then leaves a lingering ache.

Directed by

Richard Bramall, Tom G. Robertson

Starring

Lynsey Baxter, Edwin Brown, Susan Richards

Overview

As a little girl is daydreaming out the window, her wicked father comes home. It's Christmas Eve. She tells her father that she was thinking about her Grandmother and of how nice Christmas was when she was alive. The father, angry and bitter, tells the girl that she must be out early to sell the matches or she can think about a beating. He tells her she needs to keep her mind on selling the matches and that she cannot come home until every one of them is sold. Then he laments about how, since her momma died, she is more than pain and trouble and is always in the way.

How it feels

Melancholic, bleak, dark and warm. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Grief, politics, family, survival

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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