Shot in Argyllshire, Jim Crace’s novel about a closed rural community in an unspecified past undergoes imaginative realisation by Greek film maker Athena Rachel Tsangari.
Tsangari who has previously worked alongside Yorgos Lanthimos, follows her incisive portrait of male anxiety, Chevalier (2015), with a bold, vivid and good-looking take on the period film. In the wake of a mysterious stable fire, three incomers are blamed and persecuted, but the biggest threats arrive separately. Modern ideas about enclosure unsettle the communal notions laid out by landowner Master Kent. Outcast Thirsk (Caleb Landry-Jones) acts as go-between between the factions in this soon-to-bubble-over melting pot.
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