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To Play or to Die is a stark Dutch drama about bullying, sexuality and adolescent desperation. Frank Krom’s approach is deliberately severe, and the film’s bleakness can make it difficult to watch, but that lack of sentimentality gives the material disturbing force. It is a small, uncompromising film rather than an easy coming-of-age story.
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