CommentsXp Best movie ever!

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

bakergeo This movie is an utter mess and pretty much one giant long awkward silence. The most boring thing I've ever seen, unless you're particularly entertained by one woman losing her mind over undercooked meat, a family being unable to decide where to sit in a restaurant, or some guy talking about how the height of his life's excitement is going to Africa to teach people about safe sex. The whole movie is a compilation of awkward moments and conversations you dread in your everyday life. Also, what even happened in this movie? I feel bad for the chef lady because I don't feel like she knows either. She's constantly being forced into awkward conversations and pulling random backstory out of her butt. Why did this movie happen.

Sindre Kaspersen English screenwriter and director Joanna Hogg's second feature film which she wrote, premiered at the 54th London Film Festival in 2010, was screened at the 15th Busan International Film Festival in 2010, was shot on location in Tresco, Isles of Scilly in Cornwall, England and is a UK production which was produced by producer Gayle Griffiths. It tells the story about a man named Edward, who goes on a goodbye holiday to a vacation house on an island with his mother named Patricia and his older sister named Cynthia. As they settle in, they await Edward and Cynthia's father who is expected to join them and Edward befriends a cook from Northamptonshire named Rose.Distinctly and precisely directed by British filmmaker Joanna Hogg, this quietly paced fictional tale which is narrated from multiple viewpoints, draws a quiet and contemplative portrayal of the solidarity, individuality and tensions within a family that is missing one significant piece. While notable for its naturalistic and atmospheric milieu depictions, reverent cinematography by cinematographer Ed Rutherford, production design by French production designer Stéphane Collonge, fine editing by Danish film editor Helle Le Fevre and use of sound, colors and light, this dialog-driven story about crucial decisions, interpersonal communication and family relations, depicts some dense and internal studies of character.This tangible, theatrical and humane drama from the late 2000s which is set on a private island in South West England which is one of the five Isles of Scilly which forms an archipelago, is impelled and reinforced by its cogent narrative structure, subtle character development and continuity, rare aura, interesting characters, partly improvised dialog, underlying emotional substance and the refined and involving acting performances by English actor Tom Hiddleston, English actresses Kate Fahy, Lydia Leonard, Amy Lloyd in her debut feature film role and English landscape painter Christopher W. Baker. An atmospheric, at times lyrical and modestly though efficiently expressionistic character piece.

Tim Kidner I've been around and spent time with the 'type' of people in Johanna Hogg's Isles of Scilly-set drama and there is that familiar dialogue; clipped, occasionally trite and with an efficient brevity. They live rather differently to me and like this film, I'm always just a little bit glad to get back to my own 'sort' after.Whilst I wasn't able to immerse myself in the story fully it does show that even the best bred, best intentioned families do have their emotions and crises and because, maybe, we're so used to only more 'normal' people swearing and shouting, that such folk don't. They tend to do it more privately, that's all.I can do slow - if you follow some of my favourite directors, slow is OK and admittedly this one brought my blood pressure down quite a few notches, the rather drab scenery and matt greyness of many of the interiors perhaps making a statement, or simply to hang the story on a blank canvas.Yes, it rolled on for nearly forever and whilst I'm sure (as is evident here, on IMDb) many found much to admire and appreciate, I won't be seeking a second viewing. I saw it on BBC2, very late.

Tweekums Before Edward departs for eleven months of volunteer work in Africa his family decide to get together for a family holiday on the island of Tresco in the off season. Here Edward, his sister Cynthia and his mother Patricia are joined by Rose the cook and art teacher Christopher. It quickly becomes apparent that there are family tensions; Cynthia clearly doesn't agree with her brother's decision to go to Africa thinking he should get a real job and there father never turns up despite talking to the phone to Patricia more than once. We follow them through their holiday; watching them go for a picnic, go out for a meal at the hotel and sit and talk... or sometimes just sit. As time passes tempers fray but never so much that we think it may have a lasting effect on the characters. Then they leave.Having enjoyed many visits to the Isles of Scilly over the years I really wanted to enjoy this; the problem was it felt a little too real; as though we were just being shown a group of fairly unsympathetic characters having a miserable time on holiday. There were long pauses and conversations about things of little consequence; realistic perhaps but sadly not that interesting. Strangely the family seemed to have almost no interaction with anybody but each other, Rose and Christopher; we see Rose chatting to a couple of locals when she acquires some lobsters and pheasants for dinner but apart from that the island seems strangely deserted... even when they go out for dinner the restaurant is deserted apart from the staff... if it hadn't been for the fact that we see them leave at the end I might have thought it was all a metaphor for purgatory! I can't really fault the actors as I did believe in the characters; even if this meant I disliked many of them! I might not have found this hilarious but I'd be lying if I said I didn't laugh at all.While this clearly wasn't the film for me I certainly wouldn't recommend avoiding it all together; the large number of '10' reviews suggests quite a few people love it; perhaps I was just missing something and you will love it too.