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The Levelling

2016

Hope Dickson Leach

Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton, Jack Holden, Joe Blakemore

6.0

128

Drama Somerset, October 2014. When Clover Catto (Ellie Kendrick) receives a call telling her that her younger brother Charlie (Joe Blakemore) is dead, she must return to her family farm and face the man she hasn't spoken to in years: her father Aubrey (David Troughton). As she learns what has been going on in her long absence she and her father forge a new understanding, but can it withstand the troubles that they face on the ravaged farm as ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Allan Hunter Screendaily	"It may not arrive with guns blazing but 'The Levelling' has a calm assurance and brooding tension that are just as noteworthy"
		Jessica Kiang Variety	"'The Levelling' is an intimate story, waterlogged with guilt, grief and blame, but it explores this dark spectrum with such unsentimental honesty that its tiny moments of uplift (...) are magnified and moving"
		Oliver Lyttelton The Playlist	"One of the most impressive and assured first films we’ve seen in a long while, a wrenchingly moving, beautifully executed work"
		Sheri Linden Los Angeles Times	"A modestly scaled, superbly crafted drama with a powerful sense of place (...) [An] impressive first feature"
		Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"'The Levelling' is nothing if not authentic in its depiction of the unrelenting grind of daily life on a working farm (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Hope Dickson Leach’s excellent debut feature 'The Levelling' is a superbly shot and piercingly acted realist tragedy (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Mark Kermode The Guardian	"There is such life and compassion in every frame that the film’s tune turns to a song of love (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

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