DARK RIVER

DARK RIVER, 2017

United Kingdom |DCP, Color, 90' |English
Director: Clio Barnard
Cast: Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, Sean Bean

Alice is a respected sheep-shearer travelling from farm to farm in Northern England. Following the news of her father’s passing, she returns to her family’s farm after 15 years, and begins to run from one job to another in an attempt to keep the ghosts of the past at bay. When she encounters her brother and goes back to the places where she has endured her father’s abuse, all of the bad memories she has been avoiding are resurfaced. Famous for her films The Selfish Giant and The Arbor, Clio Barnard’s Dark River is an intense social realist drama.