A sort of second rate attempt to do Andrea Arnold, this would have been just as effective as a short film - it doesn't have enough to it to sustain the interest. I get wandering cameras and holding on to your edit, but these are down in Arnold's case to intensify the story, in Tarkovsky too, but here it such seems like artifice. Am I being unfair? The film is ridiculously over-praised. It's so oblique it just sort of slips away. Frankie Corio is great as the girl but I'm still not really convinced by Paul Mescal. That it won the Outstanding Debut BAFTA is a symptom of something - this feels more like a film school project. Do we think he dies / commits suicide, and that's why the older version of the girl is sad?
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