DARK RIVER

Cert 15

Digital today, disc Monday Ruth Wilson and Mark Stanley are warring siblings in this bitingly dark Yorkshire drama full of slaughter, violence, abuse and alcoholism.

The death of their father leads to his estranged daughter returning to the sheep farm family home for the first time in many years. Isolated in the sodden and majestic landscape, she struggles with her brother for the legal, spiritual and moral ownership of the land.

A tyrannical Sean Bean appears in flashback, but it’s Wilson who shoulders the film, in a role which must have been as punishing to perform as it is to watch.

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