Cast: Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Eddie Redmayne, Julie Christie
Anne is the adopted daughter of an aristocratic family in 1940s Britain. The head of the family (a conservative MP) and his son, who works at the foreign office, are both opposed the approaching war with Germany and determined to maintain their way of life. When Anne stumbles across some recordings of secret government meetings at their family home, she believes there is a conspiracy to prevent the war. This gripping psychological thriller follows Anne as she becomes entangled in a web of dark and menacing secrets. She is betrayed by all around her, finally realising that an adopted daughter isn’t necessarily a member of the family, and many of those she holds dear are killed. Stephen Poliakoff is famed for his television period pieces, but this is a magnificent return to the big screen. The eeriness of the film, and the sudden sense of loneliness that we share with Anne as we realise the depth of the betrayal that she has suffered, bare comparison with ‘The Wicker Man’. And the directorial vision of the film is sumptuous and epic and yet claustrophobic and dark.
Anne is the adopted daughter of an aristocratic family in 1940s Britain. The head of the family (a conservative MP) and his son, who works at the foreign office, are both opposed the approaching war with Germany and determined to maintain their way of life. When Anne stumbles across some recordings of secret government meetings at their family home, she believes there is a conspiracy to prevent the war. This gripping psychological thriller follows Anne as she becomes entangled in a web of dark and menacing secrets. She is betrayed by all around her, finally realising that an adopted daughter isn’t necessarily a member of the family, and many of those she holds dear are killed. Stephen Poliakoff is famed for his television period pieces, but this is a magnificent return to the big screen. The eeriness of the film, and the sudden sense of loneliness that we share with Anne as we realise the depth of the betrayal that she has suffered, bare comparison with ‘The Wicker Man’. And the directorial vision of the film is sumptuous and epic and yet claustrophobic and dark.
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