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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Wendy Ide

The White King review – perhaps a dystopia too far

Lorenzo Allchurch as Djata in The White King.
‘Jackboot justice’: Lorenzo Allchurch as Djata in The White King. Photograph: film company handout

This British/Hungarian co-production unfolds in the kind of near-future dystopian society that is so popular in young adult movies. But with a modest budget and a younger protagonist – Djata (Lorenzo Allchurch) is a child whose father has been imprisoned for some undisclosed act of rebellion – this might not have the same appeal to audiences as movies such as The Hunger Games. Still, it’s an impressively realised world; the “Homeland” is an agrarian totalitarian state in which any form of dissent is quashed by jackboot justice.

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