On the Sea
Film details
| Film Title | On the Sea |
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| Length | 115mins |
| Year | 2025 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Director | Helen Walsh |
| Actors | Barry Ward, Lorne MacFadyen, Liz White, Henry Lawfull, Celyn Jones, Leisa Gwenllian, Danny Webb |
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Jack has been married to Maggie for over half his life. He works as a Hand Raker on the mussel beds in North Wales alongside his younger brother, Dyfan, and Dyfan’s three sons. Jack has always assumed that his own boy, Tom, will join the family business on leaving school but Tom’s resistance to follow in his footsteps creates familial tension. Tensions are further inflamed by the arrival of an itinerant deckhand, Daniel, who makes known his feelings for Jack. In this remote, rural community where life revolves around Church and fishery, Jack is faced with an impossible dilemma. On The Sea is a beautiful, sensual and at times, tragic exploration of masculinity, place and desire.
“On the Sea” may not set out to surprise, but it traces the expected, anguished coming-out arc with rare honesty and frank, bristly sensual abandon — both actors committing with equal parts vulnerable yearning and terse emotional avoidance.
★★★★
Ward delivers an exceptional, layered turn as Jack, whose repression had driven him deep inside himself, but who slowly awakens to a world he never imagined possible. Jack’s arc is quite moving and wholly believable…
★★★★
