Archipelago

United Kingdom 2011, 115 mins
Director: Joanna Hogg
Starring: Christopher Baker, Joanna Hogg, Tom Hiddleston, Kate Fahy

Synopsis

One of the most important voices in British independent cinema, Joanna Hogg follows up her 2007 breakthrough film UNRELATED with this equally thought-provoking look at middleclass life.

ARCHIPELAGO is a raw and biting drama that paints a bittersweet portrait of a family in crisis. Edward (Hiddleston, Wallander) is soon to depart on a volunteer trip to Africa, but before he sets off his mother Patricia (Fahy, DEFIANCE) and sister Cynthia (Leonard) organise a family get-together on the remote and beautiful Scilly isle of Tresco.

As relatives turn up and go AWOL, tensions and anxieties buried deep within the family dynamic begin to surface.