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Set on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. The story of Fanny Lye (Maxine Peak), a woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a new world of possibility - albeit at great personal cost. Living a life of Puritan stricture with husband John (Charles Dance) and young son Arthur, Fanny Lye's world is shaken to its core by the unexpected arrival of two strangers in need (Freddie Fox and Tanya Reynolds), a young couple closely pursued by a ruthless sheriff and his deputy.
This film right here brehs is a goddamn masterpiece, brehs. One of only two films that I rated a 10/10 at this year's IFFR. I've been anticipating word of its release ever since and now it's almost here.
I don't think the trailer does it too much justice but the film is essentially a stylistic mixture of Barry Lyndon and A Clockwork Orange with a bit of Eyes Wide Shut sprinkled in for good measure. That's an almost unfathomable high bar that the film aims for and that's the really crazy thing, it fully deliver'd. Writer/director Thomas Clay had the farmhouse actually built from the ground up so he could naturally move or pan the camera from outdoors to indoors and vice versa, all the dialogue is in authentic ol' English and Clay also composed the score himself using authentic instruments (the pieces you hear in the trailer are from the actual score).
Suffices to say the acting is on point too. The four main leads (plus the kid) all deliver great performances but Freddie Fox especially drops a once in a lifetime Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange type performance. His character is a complex, fearsome manipulator and it bleeds through the screen every second.
It's an intense watch and since the dialogue can be hard to follow it really requires your full attention (especially as characters dissect gender differences, religious beliefs and whatnot) but if you love cinema even a tiny bit this will blow you away.
Set on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. The story of Fanny Lye (Maxine Peak), a woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a new world of possibility - albeit at great personal cost. Living a life of Puritan stricture with husband John (Charles Dance) and young son Arthur, Fanny Lye's world is shaken to its core by the unexpected arrival of two strangers in need (Freddie Fox and Tanya Reynolds), a young couple closely pursued by a ruthless sheriff and his deputy.
This film right here brehs is a goddamn masterpiece, brehs. One of only two films that I rated a 10/10 at this year's IFFR. I've been anticipating word of its release ever since and now it's almost here.
I don't think the trailer does it too much justice but the film is essentially a stylistic mixture of Barry Lyndon and A Clockwork Orange with a bit of Eyes Wide Shut sprinkled in for good measure. That's an almost unfathomable high bar that the film aims for and that's the really crazy thing, it fully deliver'd. Writer/director Thomas Clay had the farmhouse actually built from the ground up so he could naturally move or pan the camera from outdoors to indoors and vice versa, all the dialogue is in authentic ol' English and Clay also composed the score himself using authentic instruments (the pieces you hear in the trailer are from the actual score).
Suffices to say the acting is on point too. The four main leads (plus the kid) all deliver great performances but Freddie Fox especially drops a once in a lifetime Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange type performance. His character is a complex, fearsome manipulator and it bleeds through the screen every second.
It's an intense watch and since the dialogue can be hard to follow it really requires your full attention (especially as characters dissect gender differences, religious beliefs and whatnot) but if you love cinema even a tiny bit this will blow you away.
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,but you acknowledged
since my favorite Kubruck films aren't exactly Kubrickian lol (The Killing, Strangelove, Paths)
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