A brash young man visiting Ireland comes apart in Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ promising debut feature
Actor turned film-maker Antonia Campbell-Hughes goes out on a limb here with her feature directing project: a film which is also an experiment in mood and feeling. It’s an interesting if flawed movie, and I wasn’t sure some of the line-readings and the big dialogue scenes completely came off; but this is the work of a director with a real sense of landscape and place.
The scene is the north of Ireland, where a smooth and self-satisfied young businessman has arrived on a short visit: Hamish, played by Cosmo Jarvis, who is alienated from his father, played by Claes Bang, seen only on Zoom calls. Hamish has been bequeathed a remote cottage by an aunt in her will and now he wants to see it. From the outset, the mood is strange, oppressive: Hamish...
Actor turned film-maker Antonia Campbell-Hughes goes out on a limb here with her feature directing project: a film which is also an experiment in mood and feeling. It’s an interesting if flawed movie, and I wasn’t sure some of the line-readings and the big dialogue scenes completely came off; but this is the work of a director with a real sense of landscape and place.
The scene is the north of Ireland, where a smooth and self-satisfied young businessman has arrived on a short visit: Hamish, played by Cosmo Jarvis, who is alienated from his father, played by Claes Bang, seen only on Zoom calls. Hamish has been bequeathed a remote cottage by an aunt in her will and now he wants to see it. From the outset, the mood is strange, oppressive: Hamish...
- 9/19/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Can you experience a yearning that's close to nostalgia for a feeling you never had or a place you've never lived? Antonia Campbell-Hughes moody psychodrama explores the possibilities after an accident brings two men, who would normally never have met, into a shared orbit with a shared secret.
One of them is Hamish (Cosmo Jarvis), a well brought up suited city type, whose life is controlled down to the last trouser crease and splash of expensive aftershave. He's come to a remote part of Ireland, where mist and mud rule, following the death of his aunt to sort out the details, much to the chagrin of his father (Claes Bang), glimpsed on voice calls offering instruction but little comfort.
There's a sense of empty, negative space about Hamish even before the accident, an unwillingness to even engage with the flirtatious banter of a rental car clerk (Pauline Hutton). Perhaps that's why hurtling up an.
One of them is Hamish (Cosmo Jarvis), a well brought up suited city type, whose life is controlled down to the last trouser crease and splash of expensive aftershave. He's come to a remote part of Ireland, where mist and mud rule, following the death of his aunt to sort out the details, much to the chagrin of his father (Claes Bang), glimpsed on voice calls offering instruction but little comfort.
There's a sense of empty, negative space about Hamish even before the accident, an unwillingness to even engage with the flirtatious banter of a rental car clerk (Pauline Hutton). Perhaps that's why hurtling up an.
- 9/5/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Early on in David Cronenberg’s “Crash,” two characters lock eyes across the crumpled hoods of their cars after a head-on collision. A strange transference occurs, partly sexual and partly about a different kind of intimacy, one that comes from a shared proximity to death. Actress Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ intriguing, evocative directorial debut “It Is in Us All” takes a similar moment as the catalyst for a moody, existential drama that may not be about car-crash fetishes but features no less peculiar, no less disturbing psychologies, fused imperfectly together in one violent instant on a lonely Donegal road.
The two strangers connected by the lethal accident are Evan (Rhys Mannion), the 17-year-old local who escapes unharmed while his friend is killed, and Hamish (Cosmo Jarvis), the urbane London professional on his way to check out the house bequeathed to him by his late aunt. Evan will later suggest the crash was predestined,...
The two strangers connected by the lethal accident are Evan (Rhys Mannion), the 17-year-old local who escapes unharmed while his friend is killed, and Hamish (Cosmo Jarvis), the urbane London professional on his way to check out the house bequeathed to him by his late aunt. Evan will later suggest the crash was predestined,...
- 3/15/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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