Solomon Glave and especially the fantastic Shannon Beer impress as the younger couple, who grow into James Howson and Kaya Scodelario (one of the few cast members who'd had any previous experience!) in Andrea's ultra realistic, naturalistic version which makes you thoroughly appreciate electric light and central heating. She's quite rightly focused a lot of attention on the younger couple - she's adapted it with Olivia Hetreed, who also wrote Girl with the Pearl Earring and before that was a film editor.
With: Nichola Burley, Steve Evets (recognisable from Rev), Lee Shar, Amy Wren and Simone Jackson.
Robbie Ryan shoots in what looks like natural light sources, giving a properly dark experience - as it should be, the best night scenes I think I've ever seen. (His astonishing work on this film was naturally ignored by both academies.) Combine this with intimate shots of the couple (hands, hair) and nature, and a fantastically natural soundtrack (no music) and it all adds up to something extraordinary, a sort of British The New World in the wild Yorkshire Dales.
I love Andrea Arnold. It seems she's shooting American Honey in the US...
She manages to get that eroticism into it familiar from her other work...
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