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BAFTA winner Emma Mackey (Death on the Nile) leads this sun-scorched adaptation of Deborah Levy's coming-of-age novel. Co-starring Vicky Krieps...
BAFTA winner Emma Mackey (Death on the Nile) leads this sun-scorched adaptation of Deborah Levy's coming-of-age novel. Co-starring Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) and Fiona Shaw (Andor), this is the directorial debut of Rebecca Lenkiewicz, co-writer of 2017's Disobedience, 2022's She Said, and 2013 Oscar-winning drama Ida.
Rose (Shaw) and her daughter Sofia (Mackey) travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez (Vincent Perez), a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose’s mystery illness, which has left her bound to a wheelchair. But in the sultry atmosphere of this sun-bleached town Sofia, who has been trapped by her mother’s illness all her life, finally starts to shed her inhibitions, enticed by the persuasive charms of enigmatic traveller Ingrid (Krieps).
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37 %70 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
48 %61 reviewsAudience score rating
"Never gains momentum within its cascading rhythm of staccato sequences."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"Shaw is exceptional at revealing the cracks of grief beneath Rose’s tough carapace."
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The Times
The Times"A complicated soup of moods and ideas, and the film is always in danger of drifting out into a sea of ambiguity..."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Continually dragged down by inertia, by a writer-director whose approach is too intellectual to give space to emotion."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"There’s a ‘60s arthouse movie in here somewhere."
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IndieWire
IndieWire"Mackey is sufficiently enigmatic to carry a movie, and yet, the character herself is sketched a bit too thinly."
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Variety
Variety"Slippery, subversive storytelling that’s very hard to get any firm grasp on -- but that is one of its main pleasures."
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Independent
Independent"Sullenly charismatic with that pugnacious chin of hers, Mackey is too good an actress to be altogether at sea..."
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Daily Telegraph
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- Runtime
- 93
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- UK
