
Somerset, October 2014. When Clover Catto (Ellie Kendrick) receives a call telling her that her younger brother Harry (Joe Blakemore) is dead, she must return to her family farm and face the man she hasn't spoken to in years: her father Aubrey (David Troughton). She is shocked to discover her home changed forever by the devastating floods that destroyed the area six months earlier, and Aubrey a tormented shadow of his former self. As she learns what has been going on in her l... (Full plot summary below)
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Somerset, October 2014. When Clover Catto (Ellie Kendrick) receives a call telling her that her younger brother Harry (Joe Blakemore) is dead, she must return to her family farm and face the man she hasn't spoken to in years: her father Aubrey (David Troughton). She is shocked to discover her home changed forever by the devastating floods that destroyed the area six months earlier, and Aubrey a tormented shadow of his former self. As she learns what has been going on in her long absence she and her father forge a new understanding, but can it withstand the troubles that they face on the ravaged farm as well as the truth of what drove Harry to take his own life?
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| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsExpect Hope Dickson Leach to be snapped up by Hollywood in a heartbeat. |
| Observer (UK)Mark KermodeIt may sound bleak, but there is such life and compassion in every frame that the film's tune turns to a song of love. |
| Baret NewsKam WilliamsA heartbreakingly-palpable exploration of a strained father-daughter relationship as well as a thorough post mortem on their loved one's untimely passing! |
| The PlaylistOliver LytteltonIt isn’t just one of the best debut films of the year, but one of the year’s best films, period. |
| The SkinnyJosh Slater-WilliamsEllie Kendrick's towering performance - palpably conveying a life's worth of built-up anxieties and sadness - should prove star-making. |
| Sight and SoundAnton Biteltensions rise, until eventually the barriers break & the emotions - chiefly despair & a deep-flowing love - come flooding. This precisely & powerfully modulated climax lets the presence of talented new British filmmaker Dickson Leach be fully felt. |
| Daily Express (UK)Allan HunterIt may be modest in scale but the film is assured in both intention and execution, building successfully towards a quietly moving climax. |
| ScotsmanAlistair HarknessA subtle and sophisticated look at the way entrenched attitudes towards gender can leave people feeling trapped, resentful and desperate. |
| The SpectatorJasper ReesSuch films must be made. Otherwise ambitious, original young British filmmakers won't get a start and the only stories to make it to the screen will be the same old ones about aliens and boxers. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsThe film grows and grows. Not just as a character piece with pain and poignancy; also as a swirly, dystopian, ugly-beautiful landscape painting. |