Archipelago Reviews
Daily Express
Exposes the fault lines of a middle-class family on holiday.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Film4
A car-crash compelling, painfully comic distillation of modern British middle class mores.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
This is London
Hogg, though a fine film-maker, doesn't always prevent us feeling that these people are not worth worrying about.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Skinny
Is art the only way for the privileged to deal with their boredom and discontent? Hogg seems to be suggesting so.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Little White Lies
Hogg is inviting us to dismiss these people as fundamentally different to ourselves. But sat in a dark auditorium, we are merely laughing at each other.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Guardian [UK]
It's a difficult watch and a difficult sell, but this is quietly outstanding.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Daily Telegraph
No other British director is making films quite like this.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Radio Times
Ed Rutherford's photography is superb, but this is a pale imitation of an Ingmar Bergman chamber drama.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Real.com
Fascinating and confident film-making style of lengthy character improvisation ... a very slow burner that gives the opportunity to 'people watch' on screen.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Financial Times
Archipelago is a sad, funny, wise film.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top Critic'Archipelago' confirms Hogg as a daring and mischievous artist, and a major British talent whose next move will be intriguing.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Empire Magazine
A well-crafted affair elevated by terrific moments.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Total Film
British writer/director Joanna Hogg follows her debut Unrelated with another insightful, impressively acted study of upper-middle-class family friction.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Fan The Fire
Joanna Hogg is the shining light of the UK Film Industry. She has saved us from another embarrassing LFF, and she has done it all without the help of the incompetent UK Film Council.
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| Original Score: 5/5
