Loads of drama
I’ve been on leave so I’ve had time for a bit more film and tv than usual. This is my half time report… God’s Creatures I saw this at the proper cinema which was great for the cinematography on display with the wind blown seascapes. A domestic drama set in a run down Irish fishing community where people don’t learn to swim because if they did they might be obliged to help anyone in trouble. We get this nugget early on and it sums up the sort of place very succinctly. A very slow burn which is all built around Emily Watson and Paul Mescal’s performances as a mother and son. I love the choices that both of these actors make and their abilities to deliver such moral ambiguity in a compelling way. This is a story about a sequence of tiny choices that turn out to have big and ultimately devastating impacts. This is particularly true for Watson’s character whose adoration for her son has blinded her to his faults but finds herself torn between...