Dark River

2017
15
1h 30m

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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One woman's battle to regain her rightful place in the world.

It is COVID-19 "stay at home" time, I found this movie on the Kanopy streaming site through my public library. Very English, I had to turn on the captions to be able to understand much of the dialog.

Although I haven't seen a lot of her work I am a big Ruth Wilson fan. About 34-ish here she plays Alice Bell, working for someone on their sheep farm. Then she gets word that her father had died so she travels there to stake her claim for the tenancy for her family's sheep farm but immediately meets resistance from her brother who hasn't been taking very good care of the place.

Alice had left home some 15 years earlier, and in flashbacks we are shown that she suffered from abuse by her father. She still had visions that he was there at times. Most of the story is about Alice and her brother locking horns and struggling to find the best course of action through this difficult situation. She wants to revive the farm, he wants to liquidate and take off with the profits.

Its rating is about right, it is a well made and well acted drama but without much joy.

TxMike
Apr 6, 2020
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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