Hinterland

2015
7.3| 1h18m| en
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When Harvey (Harry Macqueen) hears that Lola (Lori Campbell) is returning home after years abroad he arranges to take her away for the weekend to the sea-side cottage where they spent so much of their youth. What follows is a touching and beautiful story of a old friendship rekindled within a new context. Hinterland is a poetic journey of self-discovery and heartbreak in contemporary Britain, a very original and visually stunning road-trip film.

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Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
ShangLuda Admirable film.
Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Andrew Tempero This is an utterly beautiful meditation on contemporary friendship and a stunningly mature debut. Both Macqueen and Campbell are wonderfully natural - drawing us into their world with subtly and nuance. Hard to think of performances so uncluttered in recent times. Ben Hecking's cinematography is gorgeously composed and compliments the performances excellently. The film captures the wilds of Cornwall extremely evocatively both mysterious and intimate. It's a slow burner but a film made with intelligence and poise. It speaks for a generation usually without a voice in contemporary British culture. An incredibly important British feature film.
marciaoh I like Hinterland. It is avant-garde and artistically done--the cinematography with unconventional camera angles and uneven shots are not typical and shock the viewer then pull them into the story. The film depicts breathtakingly picturesque scenery of the beautiful English countryside with wild ponies and animals milling around the highway, all creating images of life and expectation. Hinterland is an unusually quiet film in this world of bombastic, loud, clichéd cinema. I especially like the beginning of Hinterland--the still, close shots of rooms, the desk, the bathtub--no movement until suddenly a man climbs from a tub establish a haunting mileau. This film will be a big hit with millennials because it relates to the theme of lost youth searching for meaning. The original soundtrack is captivating and, with the woman's soulful vocals, is haunting.The conflicts come out of two young people trying to figure out unknown futures which cause them both fear and trepidation. They're both a bit in love with each other, but are terrified of commitment, of becoming stuck in lives that would take away their freedom to live vibrant, authentic experiences without boundaries like the wild horses roaming the English hills.
amandazz100 From the opening shot the film invites attention. We immediately feel drawn to the two characters and we sense how important it is that Harvey meets up with his old friend Lola. Harry Macqueen manages to convey longing , trepidation and hope without little dialogue. Both actors play their parts well and the setting is beautiful. I particularly liked the ability to convey such a depth of emotion with no graphic demonstration of it. The camera work demonstrating where Harvey is thinking of Lola is very cleverly done The film goes to show that you do not need big budgets, or even big story lines to captivate an audience. Good actors, directing , a lovely setting and beautiful camera work can achieve that.
andygberry1 Having an interest in British films that show something different to the usual run down council estate set dramas, or cockney gangster sagas, I was immediately drawn to the premise of Hinterland, which promised a gentle tale. Two former childhood friends, a boy and a girl now in their twenties, who have a platonic relationship, revisiting their shared past during a couple of days spent at their old holiday home in Cornwall.Having read some reviews of the film by critics, who almost all gave the film a respectable 3 out of 5 rating, I went into it not expecting too much, but I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw.Having read the film being described as slight and insubstantial in almost all of the critical reviews of the film, I feel that they have missed the point somewhat, as on the surface this might appear to be the case, but there are definitely deeper emotions here between the two characters, which are expressed at times through the facial expressions of Harry Macqueen's character, Harvey, and which play themselves out by the actions of both characters at the end of the film.To think that Hinterland was made on a budget of only £10,000, it's nothing short of amazing. There are some nicely composed shots, which utilise the Cornish coastal landscape well. The pace of the film is fairly slow, and scenes are allowed plenty of space and time to play themselves out, reminiscent of some of the films of the French new wave, and John Cassavetes, but despite these echoes, there is a definite British feel to the somewhat reserved emotions on display for the first three quarters of the film. There are also echoes of the British road movie, Radio On by Chris Petit, in the opening fifteen minutes or so of the film, as the characters make their way to the Cornish holiday home from their respective properties in London in Harvey's old Volvo car. It's a very promising, and memorable, first film from the director Harry Macqueen, and it will be interesting to see what he could do with a bigger budget in the future. Recommended.

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