Dark River

2017
Not Rated
1 Std. 30 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,9/10

4570

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Following the death of her father, Alice (Ruth Wilson) returns to her home village for the first time in 15 years, to claim the tenancy to the family farm she believes is rightfully hers.

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Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters kehrt Alice zum ersten Mal seit 15 Jahren in ihr Heimatdorf zurück, um ihren Eigentumsanspruch auf den Familienhof geltend zu machen, von dem sie glaubt, er stünde ... Alles lesenNach dem Tod ihres Vaters kehrt Alice zum ersten Mal seit 15 Jahren in ihr Heimatdorf zurück, um ihren Eigentumsanspruch auf den Familienhof geltend zu machen, von dem sie glaubt, er stünde ihr rechtmäßig zu.Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters kehrt Alice zum ersten Mal seit 15 Jahren in ihr Heimatdorf zurück, um ihren Eigentumsanspruch auf den Familienhof geltend zu machen, von dem sie glaubt, er stünde ihr rechtmäßig zu.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,9/10

4570

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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6paul2001sw-1

Grim up north

Ruth Wilson puts in a strong performance in 'Dark River', playing a young farmer who inherits her family's troubled legacy. She's good, but the film never completely escapes its "grim up north" sensibility, as a story unfolds of unmitigated harshness in a world inhabited only the by the terminally taciturn. One can credit the writers for not tossing in a throwaway romance; but without hope, it's hard to sustain the interest of the audience.

8djbaxter-980-742507

A bleak story but an excellent film with excellent performances

It's a sad story of family trauma and an attempt to go home many years later. The photography is superb. The acting is powerful. It works very well as a film overall. I don't want to say any more at the risk of spoiling it for you if you haven't yet seen it but it is well worth watching.

As for the negative reviews, I suggest you ignore them. This was never intended to be a super-hero action movie. It's a drama and it does what it sets out to do very well.

8Shanghai_Samurai

Bleak and Harrowing

Ruth Wilson carries this film in devastating fashion, through the dark, cold, windy, and disorientating farmland of northern England, where sister and brother vie for tenancy of their deceased father's land. With the menace of Winter's Bone and the tragic tone of Tim Roth's War Zone, the pain of an abused - an emotional cripple trying to forge through the trauma that transcends past and present - has never been made more precipitant than in Dark River. Words ring harsh, blows and falls are felt - this is one that lives you feeling wounded. Precede at your own risk.

5larrys3

Relentlessly Bleak

There's no question Ruth Wilson has superb charisma on screen and her co-star Mark Stanley is excellent as well, but this film gives the viewer, in my opinion, little room to "come up for air", as the storyline is just relentlessly dark and bleak. I thought the writer and director here Clio Bernard's 2013 movie The Selfish Giant was powerful and memorable, but her latest film is just too muddled and depressing for my tastes.

8daniellelouisewall-56875

As a northerner I loved it!

This gets right down into the roots of northern farming. A great cast and exceptional performances from Ruth Wilson and Mark Stanley, who play siblings at loggerheads.

The film itself is quite dark. Everyday is pretty much grey and dull to fit the mood for the film. It's filmed beautifully, exactly what you would expect in the lovely northern countryside.

I really enjoyed the story, I felt it got deep down into a family feud that included abuse and regret. Very well written.

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The film is very loosely based on Rose Tremain's novel Trespass. Writer/director Clio Barnard wrote an initial screenplay that was much closer to the book, which focuses on two sets of of siblings in their sixties who become involved in a property dispute in France. After the initial draft, her producers encouraged her to make the story her own so that the final film, which focuses on only one set of siblings in their thirties and is set in England is only very loosely related to the book.

Patzer
Joe shows Alice some shepherd's needle growing in a field. But the plant he shows her doesn't look like it (e.g. it's too big and too robust) and it wouldn't grow in that grassy and well-vegetated pasture as it's a weed of arable cultivation. In fact it's extremely rare in Yorkshire so would be exceedingly unlikely to be present in the area at all.

Zitate
[Last Lines]
Alice: Can I come and see you again? Can I?
Joe Bell: Yeah.

Soundtracks
An Acre of Land
Traditional
Music by Harry Escott
Arranged by Harry Escott and PJ Harvey
Published by Faber Music and by Hot Head Music Ltd
Administered by Kobalt Music Group Ltd
Performed by Harry Escott and PJ Harvey
Recorded at Westpoint Studios, London
Mixed at Air Studios, London
Under exclusive license from Faber Music and Hot Head Music Ltd (P) and (C) 2017