Saoirse Ronan is superb as a young woman grappling with addiction in Nora Fingscheidt’s (System Crasher) adaptation of the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot.
Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns home to the wild, beautiful Orkney Islands as a volunteer with the RSPB. After over a decade in London where she both found and lost love, and where her life was derailed by alcoholism, Rona, now 30, attempts to reconcile with her traumatic past. Her path to recovery is visceral, surrounded by ferocious gales and a stormy sea, rather than sentimentalised. It’s also delicate, a moving and complex portrait of a troubled mind seeking to heal.
