Archipelago

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Andrei D A little too laconic for its own good, well acted Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/28/24 Full Review Losk N Tom hiddelston is so good actor Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/17/23 Full Review Naomi L Joanna Hogg and holidays... I don't know anybody else who captures the way tensions accurately appear in the English upper middle class, which I think is specifically unique to Britain. Superficial conventions of extreme politeness with a refusal to talk or to be able to talk about the real issue until the emotionally repressed explode into horrific, expletive-laden violence while this is stoically borne by the rest of the party and never brought up. It's unthinkable to anybody who hasn't witnessed this, recognisable to everybody else who has. "Unrelated" was another gem. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/07/23 Full Review diane 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. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/09/22 Full Review isla s 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. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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