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Exhibition
Why this pick
Like Archipelago, it observes a privileged household through meticulously framed rooms, halting conversations and accumulating emotional distance rather than overt drama.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Edward (Hiddleston) is in the throes of a Midlife crisis. He is quitting his job in the city to travel to Africa, doing volunteer educational work to promote safe sex and combat the spread of HIV/AIDS. To see him off, his mother Patricia (Fahy) and sister Cynthia (Leonard) have organised a family holiday and List of French phrases party on Tresco, Isles of Scilly in the Isles of Scilly in a cottage they often rented years before. An invitation has also been extended to Patricia's estranged husband, who appears to have expressed the vague intention of coming.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Tom Hiddleston
Edward
Lydia Leonard
Cynthia
Amy Lloyd
Rose
Christopher James Baker
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