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Mar 4, 2016 · On DVD & Digital | https://vivaverve.com/film/couple-in-a-hole/After their isolated house is destroyed by a wildfire, John (Paul Higgins) and Karen (Kate Dic...
Aug 21, 2015 · A middle-aged couple who have renounced civilization to live in a cave in the woods are befriended by a local farmer with mysterious ulterior motives, in thi...
A British couple ends up living like savages in a hole in the middle of a vast forest in the French Pyrenees.
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It is the second feature film directed by Tom Geens, following Liar (Menteur) in 2009. Geens had been involved with experimental theatre in London in the 1990s, before becoming interested in filmmaking after seeing Thomas Vinterberg's film Festen. Making the film took him five years. Many of the film's creative decisions were influenced by financin...
It focuses on a Scottish couple, Karen (Dickie) and John (Higgins), who are initially shown living in a hole in the mountains, surviving off what they can find. When Karen is bitten by a spider, John heads to a nearby village and gets the help of Andre (Jerome Kircher). This increases tensions between Karen and John, leading to arguments and some i...
It received a generally positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 100% based on reviews from 15 critics. Jonathan Romney in the Observer rated it 3 out of 5, praising the acting in particular, and calling it "a ruralist cross between British psychological realism and the wilder, Artaud-inflected fringes of French art c...
Mar 3, 2016 · With performances from Red Road and Game of Thrones actor Kate Dickie and Utopia’s Paul Higgins, Couple in a Hole will be released in UK cinemas on 8 April Couple in a Hole review Source ...
Sep 17, 2015 · A year on, the self-explanatory Couple in a Hole takes that trope to a fascinating new place. Forsaken review – Kiefer and Donald Sutherland play at wild west cowboys Read more
Apr 4, 2016 · B elgian filmmaker Tom Geens’ second feature does what it says on the tin; its central characters, John (Paul Higgins) and Karen (Kate Dickie) are a middle-class couple who live – quite literally – in a hole. Somewhere in the Pyrenees, the pair have settled into a comfortable routine; John hunting and foraging, skinning and roasting ...
