The World to Come

This is much more of a period romance done right: it´s an excellent one. A movie that lives up the expectations thanks to striking performances, great score and really good direction. A superb work!

Truly one of the more heartlfelt movies I've seen in a long time, it left me in tears. Kirby and Waterstone deliver stellar performances and Affleck and Abbott were great. I'm not familiar with Daniel Blumberg's earlier work but I was absolutely floored by the score, it definitely contributed to my love for this film. Loved almost every aspect of it!

On the surface this might seem to be a story about two repressed lesbians, but it is so much more than that. It is hard for us today to relate to how it was in the mid 1800s. A man married a woman so she could give him children, she could do daily chores, like milk the cow and feed the pigs and chickens. They had none of the conveniences we take for granted, any entertainment had to come from within.

This is a story spanning about the first nine months of the year 1856. Of two young couples, each working nearby farms. One had a 4-yr-old child that became sick and died. The other couple were unable to have children and the man blamed it on his wife.

So although each wife was attractive, capable, and smart the husbands came to be less and less happy with them. The two young wives found happiness being with each other, sharing thoughts and emotions they could not with their husbands. A way to bring some light into their dreary days.

Yes, when it was all done one might say they were lesbians. Or maybe they were just forced into an attraction and hidden relationship that was their only choice in this bleak existence. No matter it is a good movie and I prefer to look at it as making the best of your situation.

On DVD from my public library, my wife chose to skip.

Obviously the best of the movie are the performances, that made the movie interesting,. Kirby is just amazing and real, and waterstone is delivering a really good performance.. Both made that the story get more interesting, and felt connected. Movie has made in Rumania in a mountain where the entire cast was isolated, so the movie is as well isolated, with 2 amazing performances. If We compare with ammonites for example, I think that has note been well directes, there is a lack of details, so is one of the reasons why movie Doesn't have punch.. It's whorty just for watch the performances of kirby that is the actress of the Future, a beast of acting, and Waterston that from the inmaculate actress that seems appears at almost the same level than Kirby

Against the warmest 19th century colour, when being yourself was forbidden, a relationship begins but is thwarted, with fossil control and dominance reinstated. Two great performances from Katherine Waterstone and Vanessa Kirby amplified through the acute and sensitive direction of Mona Fastvold.