Joanna Coates : 2014
In a deserted English country house, four young people from London move in together. They seek to challenge social conventions and their own tolerances by setting up a polyamorous commune, choosing total isolation as a form of emotional, intellectual, and political hiding place. Conventional life has left them lonely and damaged, but each desires to somehow throw off sadness and doubt, to open themselves up to new possibilities. Strange rules and rituals help loosen their inhibitions as, fighting cynicism and ghosts from the past, they slowly move from jadedness towards an insular, deeply unconventional joy. The durability of their new living arrangements is tested however by the arrival of an outsider who fails to get in tune with the foursome's radical spirit, thus bringing internal pressures to threaten their fragile world. A delicate interrogation of the emotional lives of contemporary young people. Joanna Coates's feature debut was winner of the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film when it premiered in the New Perspectives section at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014.
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