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Feb 23, 2018 · Clio Barnard’s third feature Dark River is another experiment in the possibilities of cinematic realism. While the docudrama approach of 2010’s The Arbor gave way to the naturalism of 2013’s The Selfish Giant, this film is an attempt to present physical verisimilitude and psychological traces together on screen. Although Dark River is partly inspired by Rose Tremain’s 2010 novel ...
Jul 6, 2018 · Clio Barnard’s Dark River is a harrowing drama about the long-lasting impact of abuse. Ruth Wilson stars as Alice, a Yorkshire-raised woman who’s working as an itinerant sheep herder/shearer when she hears that her father (Sean Bean) has died. She goes home for the first time in many years to claim her right to the family farm, only to ...
Jun 28, 2018 · Most everything about Dark River feels tired. The narrative around a taciturn woman who can skin a rabbit without flinching but is also fundamentally brittle is tired. That all we see her do for ...
Mar 18, 2022 · It’s been a long journey for Deep Water, the erotic thriller starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas. Directed by Adrian Lyne, who is best known for his provocative ’80s thriller Fatal ...
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Jun 30, 2020 · Season 3 makes multiple references to 1999's the Matrix and specifically the line "a glitch in the Matrix," which is meant to be that film's explanation for the sensation of deja vu. However, Dark ...
Sep 15, 2017 · C lio Barnard is the fiercely intelligent, visually inventive and innovative film-maker who gave us the brilliant docu-hybrid The Arbor and then The Selfish Giant, an inspired interpretation of ...
Feb 22, 2018 · Dark River, the film in which this scene occurs, demands a kind of hushed respect, but boy, it’s a grim, hard slog. The question is put to Joe (Mark Stanley) by his sister Alice (Ruth Wilson, very good in a demanding role). Alice has been away from the family farm for years now, earning good money as a sheep shearer in further-flung places ...
