Dark River

IMDb RATING

5.9/10

4.5K

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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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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.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.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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IMDb RATING

5.9/10

4.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations total

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Trivia
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.

Goofs
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.

Quotes
[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

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Featured review

8/10

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.