HOARD The most interesting British films of the past couple of years – Aftersun, All Of Us Strangers – have dealt with characters weighed down by unreckoned emotional inheritance from their parents. Few have quite so much baggage, however as Maria, the focus of Luna Carmoon’s Hoard, the most striking British debut of 2024. She has vast black binliners of the stuff, scoured from the dumps of South-East London, which she delights in bringing home, squirreling under the sofa, behind the radiator, into her bed…
We meet Maria as a child in the 1980s, living with her mum Cynthia in an Aladdin’s cave of tat – groaning shelves of VHS tapes, piles of clothes and food, a Christmas tree decorated with tin foil and dried orange peel, on the telly and a pet ferret gambolling over a tuneless joanna. It’s abundantly plain that her mum (the sensational Hayley Squires) is fathoms deep into a
