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Worth Seeing

posted 8 years ago by hilaryjrp
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"The Silent Storm" will disappoint you only if you're looking for extremes of--everything. This is a good film worth your time and, for me, particularly interesting because of its setting, in very-early-modern Post WWII rural Britain.

Damian Lewis will not win any admirers for the role he plays as Balor, and Andrea Riseborough remains way too...for lack of a better word, unexplained. Ross Anderson as Fionn is strikingly healthy and handsome for a character who has survived not merely an orphanage but a stint in jail, but he propels the film into odd places.

Definitely worth seeing. Currently streaming only on ITunes.

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[–] hilaryjrp 8 years ago

"The Silent Storm's" strong suit is its fluidity and Aislin's (Riseborough) "journey." [Aargh, that word.] As I say in my review, I compare it to the hyoooje-budget "Oscar and Lucinda." That film builds an unforgettable world with stunningly unorthodox lovers (I'll always remember Fiennes and Blanchett for their gender-busting roles in it more than any other). "The Silent Storm" is not big-budget but *does* manage to achieve something similar, if in an infinitely quieter way. "Oscar and Lucinda" (and "Breaking the Waves," for that matter) remains firmly Calvinist.

Without giving anything away, "The Silent Storm" begins with Riseborough in the nineteenth-century dress natural for an oppressed 1940's Presbyterian wife on a North Sea island. The last shot of her character is an odd one, reminiscent of a 50's American western. That she is wearing the same clothing is insignificant.