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Critics Consensus: An emotional and astutely accomplished feature debut from TV director Joanna Hogg, with strong performances and impressive direction throughout.
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Critic Consensus: An emotional and astutely accomplished feature debut from TV director Joanna Hogg, with strong performances and impressive direction throughout.
All Critics (17) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (2)
This is civilized human behavior captured with a clinical precision and accuracy.
As if from nowhere, a first-time British film-maker has appeared with a tremendously accomplished, subtle and supremely confident feature, authorially distinctive and positively dripping with technique.
Mostly, though, Hogg displays a welcome desire to draw on global film influences and ignore the unwritten rules of what British cinema should or should not seek to achieve, especially in the realm of films about the monied and unsympathetic.
Unrelated observes the English upper-middle classes so astutely that, at times, it is almost painful to watch.
Hogg works primarily with hypnotic, locked-down, wide-open compositions that seem, at times, to swallow up the people that inhabit them.
This is a drama that amounts to much more than the sum of its parts and, without doubt, is one of the best, and most original, British films of the year.
The complexity of real life creeps in to comic, poignant and often uncomfortably emotional effect. A lo-fi Bridget Jones with serious balls.
If Hogg can render the travails of a bunch of middle-class British holidaymakers a subject of interest, there's reason to hope she has some career in the making.
Scratchy? But why not? Scratchy sounds human. In Unrelated we almost hear the charcoal on the paper as the group portrait takes shape, filled with unknown actors helping to cross-hatch their own characters.
Those of you who enjoy enigmatic dramas which unfold slowly will not be disappointed.
If Eric Rohmer were British, this is the kind of film he'd make.
However, the climactic scene - when we learn what's been bugging the sour-faced Anna all this time - proves a bit of an awkward let-down, under-written and over-acted.
Poignant study of trying to belong but always feeling on the periphery. Set in a french getaway, the lead tries to capture the spirit of rebellious youth she never experienced but struggles to marry that with the reality of her adult maturity and its implications. Rare foray into Gallic cinema territory by an english director which feels genuine.
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