Babyteeth - Review
Director: Shannon Murphy Starring: Eliza Scanlen, Toby Wallace, Emily Barclay, Eugene Gilfedder, Essie Davis, Ben Mendelsohn Seriously ill teenager Milla (Scanlen) falls in love with Moses, a wayward young man and small-time drug dealer, much to her parents chagrin. However, Milla's relationship with Moses reinvigorates and gives her a newfound zest for life. Five Feet Apart, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, The Fault in Our Stars . Over the past few years, the terminally-ill teenage romance genre has had a host of entries. Whilst each film is not without its merits, they do adhere to a strict formula. Shannon Murphy's debut Babyteeth bucks this pattern of predictability in a bold and relentlessly artistic fashion, favouring nuanced exploration over forced and manipulative emotion - although there are plenty of tears to be shed. Milla and Moses meet on a train station platform after he accidentally shoves into her and goes on to stem her nosebleed with his t-shirt, lowering Mi