Dark River

IMDb RATING

5.9/10

4.5K

YOUR RATING

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.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

5.9/10

4.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations

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

5/10

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.