Arnold’s first feature is post-9/11 cinema that teeters on the edge of the precipice, a brilliant mystery-thriller with dark shades of early Haneke as a CCTV operator chances upon a face that she least expects to see.
There’s both a sense of energy and listlessness to the filmmaking, with a story or two waiting to pop out, but that never materializes through the course of this sprawling, ambitious road movie.
Flies the British social realism flag sky-high—this is a remarkably piercing yet sensual work by Andrea Arnold, not to mention featuring a breathtaking performance by Katie Jarvis.
Arnold makes a detour into documentary filmmaking as her camera brings us up close and personal with several cows in a dairy farm, capturing their magnificence as well as the sheer drudgery of their reality.
Eternality Tan 