Archipelago

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Andrei D 08/28/2024 A little too laconic for its own good, well acted See more diane 11/09/2022 I'm a giant fan of all things Brit including movies but this one seemed to me like a bit of unrelenting tedium, albeit spotted with a few bursts of verbal rage. For instance we're staring at a still shot of some trees for . . . . about . . . . this . . . . long (or maybe longer) then we switch to a scene where something moves perhaps one of the characters and that lasts for an equally endless amount of time. At this point we're absolutely craving a bit of diaglogue . . . . wait . . . . for . . . . it . . . and voila, there it is, a handful of spoken words offered to the audience like a bone to a dog. Four stars because it's beautiful to look at - even the tediously long shots of stuff and because, well, it is after all British. See more isla s 09/04/2022 This is a laidback film with little going on other than long discussions, in a very foreign holiday type setting. The surroundings do provide good cinematography/atmosphere certainly and its not unpleasant, its just a bit slow and it's not exactly exciting. There's a decent cast and it has a light and somewhat pleasant feel to it tonally but there's not much else I can say about it really...it focusses on middle to upper middle class people and features a number of conversations held between various characters in a, as I say, laidback setting - hardly action packed or gripping stuff but it's ok I suppose. I wouldn't specifically recommend this film as such, no. See more 07/10/2021 Unrequited love, hate, frustration in the most upper middle class thing ever as most of a family goto a Georgian house on the Isles of Scilly to not have an affair with the art teacher, the hired help or actually achieve very much at all. It's a great, staccato, internalised scream of a film; where everyone knows they aren't suffering in any normal definition of the term. They can't wait to leave to get on with life but already miss whatever that was when they are gone. Beautifully observed, written and performed. See more 10/08/2019 It's easy to see why Archipelago is such a Marmite film: the characters are upper middle-class and skirt often pretentiously around their self-absorbed and unexpressive frustrations while ignoring the feelings of (for instance) their live-in chalet girl. But Joanna Hogg's film is unusually hypnotic. The palette - like the Scilly Isles location - is all greys and windswept greens, there are few if any close-ups, no climaxes, and yet by the end all that is unsaid has been thoroughly articulated. A very interesting and deceptively simple work. See more 07/07/2019 It was good. You have the wrong Christopher Baker shown below as the actor who played Christopher. See more Read all reviews

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