Archipelago

In scene after scene, meaning sneaks in and sometimes roars.

This is a beautifully distilled and literally still work that lingers in the mind long after its conclusion.

As much as a downbeat comedy of bourgeois mores, Archipelago is a sort of claustrophobic horror story, set in a place of no easy escape.

The second movie from British writer-director Joanna Hogg is a quiet study in family dynamics where repression and resentment scream silently in almost every scene.