"How's it ever going to work?! You're scared!" FilmRise has debuted a full US trailer for the indie drama Dark River, the latest feature from British filmmaker Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant, The ...
Musical prowess runs through Lydia Luce’s blood. The Nashville-based singer/songwriter had a violin thrust in her hand by her mother (a professional conductor for the Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra) as ...
In Britain’s small but crucial new wave of realist rural films, it’s remarkable how much Dark River rhymes with last year’s The Levelling. Both involve daughters returning to failing farms where their ...
After a pair of the decade’s finest films with The Arbor and The Selfish Giant, Clio Barnard returned this fall with Dark River. The story follows Alice (Ruth Wilson) who, after 15-years, returns to ...
Were it not crucial to Dark River’s sense of realism that it retain patches of dialogue — sometimes sparse, sometimes desperately overlapping — Clio Barnard’s psychological drama could have worked ...
Trauma, or more specifically the aftermath of trauma, has always been a rich topic to explore in cinema, and it’s easy to see why. Trauma itself may be experienced on one’s own or with others, but the ...
On 'Dark River,' Lydia Luce gets louder — in both her sonics and personal opinions. In March 2020, a tornado hit Nashville. Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lydia Luce lay on her bed, ...