Gwen (2018) (original) (raw)
A dark folk tale set in the hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
A dark folk tale set in the hills of Wales during the industrial revolution. (less)
Director: William McGregor
Starring: Maxine Peake, Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Mark Lewis Jones, Jodie Innes
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Review by Brian Orndorf, August 14, 2019
8 / 10
�Gwen� isn�t a horror film, but it�s one of the most unsettling pictures of the year. Writer/director William McGregor mounts a Welsh nightmare of poverty and instability, taking the titular character down a dark path of responsibility in the period piece. The feature isn�t something that jumps out at the viewer, it�s a slow-burn affair that details the gradual destruction of land and sanity, only McGregor has defined dramatic goals for the work, refreshingly trying to tell a story, not simply submerge the audience in extended, shapeless agony. �Gwen� is small in scale but quite effective, vib ...read more...
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