Una (2016)
Country: GB/CAN/US
Technical: col 94m
Director: Benedict Andrews
Cast: Ruby Stokes, Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed, Tara Fitzgerald
Synopsis:
Fifteen years later, a young woman who was abused as a teenager goes out to meet her abuser, now married and working under an assumed name.
Review:
Slow, allusive and a-chronological in the British arthouse manner, this drama gradually exerts its power over the viewer, who is caught between the twin protagonists, the one who now behaves inappropriately, though she is emotionally damaged and not without cause, the other who tries to be truthful to the past without engendering a reprise. The performances and ineffably precise camerawork carry it; it is not a comfortable watch but it is a brave, as in non-judgemental, treatment.
Country: GB/CAN/US
Technical: col 94m
Director: Benedict Andrews
Cast: Ruby Stokes, Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed, Tara Fitzgerald
Synopsis:
Fifteen years later, a young woman who was abused as a teenager goes out to meet her abuser, now married and working under an assumed name.
Review:
Slow, allusive and a-chronological in the British arthouse manner, this drama gradually exerts its power over the viewer, who is caught between the twin protagonists, the one who now behaves inappropriately, though she is emotionally damaged and not without cause, the other who tries to be truthful to the past without engendering a reprise. The performances and ineffably precise camerawork carry it; it is not a comfortable watch but it is a brave, as in non-judgemental, treatment.
Country: GB/CAN/US
Technical: col 94m
Director: Benedict Andrews
Cast: Ruby Stokes, Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed, Tara Fitzgerald
Synopsis:
Fifteen years later, a young woman who was abused as a teenager goes out to meet her abuser, now married and working under an assumed name.
Review:
Slow, allusive and a-chronological in the British arthouse manner, this drama gradually exerts its power over the viewer, who is caught between the twin protagonists, the one who now behaves inappropriately, though she is emotionally damaged and not without cause, the other who tries to be truthful to the past without engendering a reprise. The performances and ineffably precise camerawork carry it; it is not a comfortable watch but it is a brave, as in non-judgemental, treatment.