Midwinter Break
Film details
| Film Title | Midwinter Break |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 91mins |
| Year | 2026 |
| Country | United Kingdom, Netherlands |
| Director | Polly Findlay |
| Actors | Lesley Manville, Ciarán Hinds, Niamh Cusack, Julie Lamberton, Ed Sayer, Leila Laaraj, Tim Licata, Marco Horta Lopes, Elène Zuidmeer, David Gallacher, Lewis Harris |
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Longtime retired couple Stella and Gerry realise that their relationship has reached a crossroads while on holiday in Amsterdam. After so much time and so many memories, long-held promises and deeply concealed wounds threaten to come to light and force them to confront their future.
If you’re drawn to the kind of melodrama that quietly unfurls in the pained faces of its actors, with the requisite subtext of Catholic guilt and whiskey as therapy, then this adaptation of Bernard MacLaverty’s 2017 novel will scratch your itch.
★★★★
“Midwinter Break” does nothing earth-shattering (it remains wee), but the movie touchingly colors in how it might be possible for two people to know each other too well and also not well enough.
★★★★
