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It Is In Us All

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It Is In Us All

2022

1h 31m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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79%

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42 Reviews

75%

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Hamish is a man gripped with drive for self excellence. A futile battle against the suffocation caused by his oppressive successful father. Hamish arrives on the soil of his mother's birth; she is felt instantly. A shocking car accident rips him apart, shattering his clenched control. A beast broken, he finds himself lost in the world of his long deceased mother. Young teen Evan, also involved in the accident befriends Hamish. The tremors of want and love beneath the stifling soil push to the surface, as he is led by the vitality of the unbridled boy Evan. He experiences the electric eroticism of living, and danger. His rage accelerates to violence, and ultimately his vibrant release.

Critics Consensus

Relying more on atmosphere than straightforward storytelling, It Is in Us All burnishes its slow-building story with outstanding cinematography.

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Nikki Baughan

Sight & Sound

Campbell-Hughes [get]s into the minds, if not completely under the skin, of her troubled male characters. Yet her visual confidence and eye for emotive detail mark her out as an exciting filmmaking talent.

Jun 9, 2023

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David Stratton

The Australian

It Is in Us All is a rather strange, rather enigmatic film about frustrated masculinity and while it is, on several levels, an impressive debut it doesn’t quite bring to the screen a sufficiently satisfying narrative.

Rated: 2.5/5

May 18, 2023

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Jamison Kent

Little White Lies

An ambitious portrait of male emotional repression and the unsettling ways those emotions can suddenly spill out.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 22, 2022

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

The delicate balance between macho masculinity and profound grief forms the emotional core of this powerful Irish character study.

Dec 27, 2024

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Nadine Whitney

The Curb

Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ debut feature It Is in Us All asks a question with its title. What is in us all? … thematically rich as it is dark proving that Campbell-Hughes is a director who has talent to burn.

Apr 17, 2024

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Damon Wise

Deadline Hollywood Daily

A gore-free body horror that manages to be completely unnerving without conforming to any of the usual expectations that come with the territory.

Sep 16, 2023

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Stephen F

Classy filmmaking with a superb lead performance from Cosmo Jarvis. Moody and poetic.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/31/24

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Finn G

Loved every minute of it! Definitely a must watch for film lovers.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/31/24

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Jerod S

It's a pretty film with an intense story start, but it languishes after the first 20 minutes. Jarvis holds his own, but he works more with his broken arm than any lines.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/24

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Tracy C

It's like a beautiful horror movie

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/15/23

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brent m

Upon completing my watch of this indecipherable, preposterous cinematic mess, I couldn't help but come away from it asking myself, "What the hell did I just watch?" Writer-director Antonia Campbell-Hughes's debut narrative feature is so "nuanced" as to be utterly vague and patently incoherent. I probably gave this one more than sufficient benefit of the doubt while screening it, awaiting a payoff (or even a half-hearted rational explanation) come movie's end, but no such luck. The meandering, improbable screenplay of this unfocused tale about a car accident victim who becomes inexplicably fixated about a younger uninjured survivor from the same incident makes virtually no sense, jumping from one ostensibly random situation to another without seeming rhyme or reason, much of it padded with repetitive extraneous shots of the rural windswept Irish landscape. What's more, it's puzzling why this offering was selected as a featured presentation for an LGBTQ+ film festival, given that there are almost no references to the protagonist's sexuality or the gay community at large. It truly boggles my mind how reviewers have praised this incomprehensible exercise in ill-conceived, poorly executed celluloid self-indulgence. Avoid this one at all costs.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Synopsis

Hamish is a man gripped with drive for self excellence. A futile battle against the suffocation caused by his oppressive successful father. Hamish arrives on the soil of his mother's birth; she is felt instantly. A shocking car accident rips him apart, shattering his clenched control. A beast broken, he finds himself lost in the world of his long deceased mother. Young teen Evan, also involved in the accident befriends Hamish. The tremors of want and love beneath the stifling soil push to the surface, as he is led by the vitality of the unbridled boy Evan. He experiences the electric eroticism of living, and danger. His rage accelerates to violence, and ultimately his vibrant release.

Director: Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Producer: Tamryn Reinecke, Conor Barry, Emma Foley, Angeli MacFarlane
Screenwriter: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Production Co: Savage Productions, Pale Rebel Productions
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 31m