Unrelated
Synopsis
Anna, a woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend’s family on holiday in Tuscany where sexual tensions simmer and where she believes she has found a second chance in life.
Our take
One of Britain’s best filmmakers, Joanna Hogg transitioned from working in television to starting a new, completely unpredictable career in cinema. We are pleased to show her debut, a penetrating and carefully balanced examination of the class that can vacation in Italy, starring Tom Hiddleston.
The ultimate Brits-abroad nightmare-holiday film… If this subtly painful comedy of manners isn’t teeth-grinding enough for you, try the male counterpart – Suntan (Argyris Papadimitropoulos, 2016) in which a doctor on a Greek island falls horribly in love with a carefree Lolita among the Euro-vacationers. Both films should come prefaced by warnings for viewers of either sex aged above, say, 35.
Jonathan Romney
June 24, 2017
As if from nowhere, a first-time British film-maker has appeared with a tremendously accomplished, subtle and supremely confident feature, authorially distinctive and positively dripping with technique.
Peter Bradshaw
September 18, 2008
British cinema has forever been preoccupied with issues of class, but it’s been some time since such matters were examined with the piercing accuracy that makes “Unrelated” so bracing.
Neil Young
May 23, 2008
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