
In the stark beauty of 19th Century Snowdonia a young girl tries desperately to hold her home together. Struggling with her mother's mysterious illness, her father's absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching on their land. A growing darkness begins to take grip of her home, and the suspicious local community turns on Gwen and her family.... (Full plot summary below)
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In the stark beauty of 19th Century Snowdonia a young girl tries desperately to hold her home together. Struggling with her mother's mysterious illness, her father's absence and a ruthless mining company encroaching on their land. A growing darkness begins to take grip of her home, and the suspicious local community turns on Gwen and her family.
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| The GuardianCath ClarkeThis is not social realism in the style of Ken Loach, but it is a film with a strong sense of outrage. Some might find it relentlessly bleak. |
| Film ThreatHunter LanierFor the most part, Gwen achieves what it sets out to do. It surrounds you in scenic hopelessness and lets you stew in it until you’re done, or Gwen’s done. By the end of this movie, somebody’s definitely done. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayMcGregor has a good command of horror’s visual and sonic cues. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreGwen has the tenor of a spooky folk Welsh folk legend and the grasping, gasping punch of an Industrial Revolution parable. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeApproach the film with managed genre expectations, however, and there’s much to admire (and duly shiver over) in its formidable, stormcloud-hued atmospherics, low-simmer storytelling and a particularly fine, unaffected breakout performance by teenage actress Eleanor Worthington-Cox in the testing title role. |
| The Observer (UK)Simran HansAs a genre exercise, the film starts promisingly enough, contrasting claustrophobic, dimly lit interiors with atmospheric wides of the landscape composed like moody paintings. Worthington-Cox is compelling, by turns twitchy, tentative, stoic and bold. Still, something isn’t clicking. |
| User ReviewDeanomiteReminds me of The Witch a little, nicely photographed with natural light, understated performances and pretty good costumes. I really like the trend of shorter movies, at 80 minutes you get the idea. Natural light is rarely done correctly, this almost looks like a nice black and white movie. it is very slow, and as such makes a good movie in the background while reading or surfing the internet. |
| User ReviewqbaseTo περίμενα καιρό αλλά δυστυχώς ήταν χάσιμο χρόνου... |