Romantic drama starring Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke and Tilda Swinton. In 1980s London, film student Julie begins a relationship with the affluent, worldly Foreign Office employee Anthony. Though the romance starts off well enough, Anthony's behaviour becomes increasingly strange when the couple move in together, and Julie begins to suspect that her partner is merely using her for money.
A naive young woman has her eyes opened by a destructive love affair in this precise and engrossing tale of addiction and creative development from British writer/director Joanna Hogg (Archipelago). Set in the early 1980s and loosely based on Hogg's own life, it stars Honor Swinton Byrne as the earnest, prim and slightly startled Julie, an aspiring film-maker from an affluent background with seemingly scant life experience who falls for an enigmatic Foreign Office employee (Tom Burke). There's a little more tenderness here than in the Hogg's previous studies of domestic discomfort, especially in the scenes between Swinton Byrne and her real-life and screen mother, Tilda Swinton. The dialogue feels both naturalistic and pointedly awkward, with Hogg harnessing the power of what goes unsaid to intrigue and beguile. She also brings us teasingly close as well as holding us at a cool, careful remove, capturing the impossibility of ever truly knowing someone else.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Julie | Honor Swinton Byrne |
| Anthony | Tom Burke |
| Julie's mother | Tilda Swinton |
| Garance | Ariane Labed |
| Patrick | Richard Ayoade |
| Marland | Jaygann Ayeh |
| Jack | Jack McMullen |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Joanna Hogg |
