Archipelago

Name: Archipelago
Genre: Drama
Released: June 27, 2014
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 82

2014

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: June 27, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Edward (Tom Hiddleston) is preparing to leave for a year of voluntary service in Africa. His mother Patricia (Kate Fahy) and his sister Cynthia (Lydia Leonard) decide to gather the family together, on a remote island, as a farewell trip to say goodbye to Edward. Hired cook Rose (Amy Lloyd) and painting teacher Christopher (ChristopherEdward (Tom Hiddleston) is preparing to leave for a year of voluntary service in Africa. His mother Patricia (Kate Fahy) and his sister Cynthia (Lydia Leonard) decide to gather the family together, on a remote island, as a farewell trip to say goodbye to Edward. Hired cook Rose (Amy Lloyd) and painting teacher Christopher (Christopher Baker), though bought in to help, only serve to bring the family’s anxieties into sharper focus. When Edward’s father is delayed, the unspoken forces of absence and loss bring the family’s buried anger and repressed tension to the surface. [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Director: Joanna Hogg

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 114 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jun 26, 2014

There is something exacting and audacious in it, something superbly controlled in its composition and technique. The clarity of her film-making diction is a marvel – even, or perhaps especially, when the nature of the story itself remains murkily unrevealed. Read full review

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Manohla Dargis

Jun 26, 2014

In most movies, something happens; in Archipelago, many things happen, quietly yet meaningfully. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Jun 26, 2014

This is a beautifully distilled and literally still work that lingers in the mind long after its conclusion. Read full review

Holly Cooper

Jun 26, 2014

Archipelago is a sharply observed and excruciatingly honest exploration of family relationships and the mess that we call life. Hogg has proven herself here to be one of Britain's most important film-makers. Read full review

Tom Dawson

Jun 26, 2014

In long, static takes, Hogg calmly exposes the gulf between polite facades and repressed resentments. Read full review

The Telegraph Sukhdev Sandhu

Jun 26, 2014

No other British director is making films quite like this. Read full review

Ray Bennett

Jun 26, 2014

Filmed in permanent twilight with a static camera and no music, it is gloomy and unrewarding with an oblique and uninformative script. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Jul 27, 2022

This is a laidback film with little going on other than long discussions, in a very foreign holiday type setting. The surroundings do provide good cinematography/atmosphere certainly and its not unpleasant, its just a bit slow and it's not exactly exciting. There's a decent cast and it has aThis is a laidback film with little going on other than long discussions, in a very foreign holiday type setting. The surroundings do provide good cinematography/atmosphere certainly and its not unpleasant, its just a bit slow and it's not exactly exciting. There's a decent cast and it has a light and somewhat pleasant feel to it tonally but there's not much else I can say about it really...it focusses on middle to upper middle class people and features a number of conversations held between various characters in a, as I say, laidback setting - hardly action packed or gripping stuff but it's ok I suppose. I wouldn't specifically recommend this film as such, no.… Expand

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