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Rating: 5.6/10 by 43 users

Archipelago (2011)

Deep fractures within a family dynamic begin to surface during a getaway to the Isles of Scilly.

Directing:
  • Joanna Hogg
  • Sara Doughty
Writing:
  • Joanna Hogg
Stars:
Release Date: Fri, Mar 04, 2011

Rating: 5.6/10 by 43 users

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Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 54 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0

Plot Keyword: family relationships, woman director
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We start and finish with the star of this film. The helicopter. Otherwise, this is a rather unremarkable soap of a story that sees a family reconvene on the remote Scilly Isles. You just know that when they have all arrived, familial discord will soon be in the air and although the film certainly looks lovely, the subsequent melodrama develops little substance to the characterisations and is chronically middle-class and pedestrian. Tom Hiddleston is a positive drip as "Edward" delivering his overwritten lines to his sister "Cynthia" (Lydia Leonard) who seems only capable of replying in tones of disdain and contempt. The narrative seems bent on contriving scenarios - both past and present - to force the thing and the characters to become interesting. For Joanna Hogg, it seems she is determined to bring some authenticity to this tale of wealthy people enjoying the privileges and pitfalls of their social status - good or bad! Maybe the title has a (not so) hidden meaning about those folks joined by birth but separated by constant personal maelstroms, but for me it is just far too wordy and up itself with far too much - admittedly beautiful - shots of the scenery. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood - but this just wasn't for me.


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