Dark River (2017)

Directed by

Clio Barnard

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 91 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman returns to the family farm in Yorkshire after 15 years to claim her inheritance. She becomes locked in a bitter conflict with her brother over control of the property.

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What happens

Dark River is a 2017 British drama film written and directed by Clio Barnard, and starring Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, and Sean Bean. The film is loosely based on Rose Tremain's novel Trespass. Originally Barnard intended the film to be a straightforward adaptation of the novel, which was set in southern France and involved two sets of elderly siblings involved in a property dispute. Encouraged by the financiers to make the story her own, Barnard changed the location of the film to Yorkshire, and instead focused on a woman who returns to the home she fled 15 years earlier in order to claim the tenancy of her father's farm, who then becomes involved in a dispute with her brother. It screened in the Platform section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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