11/29/2023 0 Comments Y committed reviews![]() ![]() Brief radio reports indicate that the country is in disarray and that retreat to safer grounds is recommended, yet as in Hunter’s source material, everything is an elliptical blur, and in a manner that quickly turns out to be less evocative than aggravating. As scripted by Alice Birch ( Lady Macbeth, The Wonder), the reasons for this disaster are left deliberately vague, the better to focus on Comer’s disturbing moment-to-moment experiences. ![]() It's apparently the end of the world as climate activists have known it, with Mother Nature attempting to drown the UK for crimes against the environment. With cacophonous rain continuing to hammer her London home, Comer’s protagonist bides her time until twin shocks arrive: early, powerful contractions and water creeping beneath the bottom of her door to saturate her residence. No matter Jodie Comer’s committed effort to wring something emotional from this cataclysmic saga, the film proves soggy in every respect.īased on Megan Hunter’s novel of the same name, and premiering at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, The End We Start From wastes no time gussying up its action with unnecessary flourishes, from an introductory bathtub POV shot in which everything is slowly blurred out by rising white haziness, to a shot of Comer’s unidentified expectant mother rising from a couch (following a power outage) that twists about in order to gaze at her upside-down in a coffee table’s reflection-the latter an expression of the fact that her world is now on the brink of being hopelessly upended. A survival story culled from the flotsam and jetsam of myriad superior doomsday ventures, director Mahalia Belo’s feature debut features a collection of insubstantial men and women and a steady stream of frustratingly diffuse situations. TORONTO, Canada-The end of the world arrives in a flood of water and affectations in The End We Start From, a post-apocalyptic drama that prioritizes superficial aesthetic frills over character and narrative depth.
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