家族の波紋
あらすじ
裕福な家庭で育った青年エドワードは、アフリカで1年間ボランティア活動に従事することに。彼が出発するまでの間、家族は母パトリシアの提案でシリー諸島にある別荘で過ごすことになり、エドワードと姉シンシア、料理人ローズと絵画教師クリストファーがやって来るが、父だけは姿を見せない。優雅な日々を過ごす一方でどこか不安な空気が漂うなか、ついに姉が感情を爆発させたことで、家族が抱えてきた問題が浮かび上がってくる。
裕福な家庭で育った青年エドワードは、アフリカで1年間ボランティア活動に従事することに。彼が出発するまでの間、家族は母パトリシアの提案でシリー諸島にある別荘で過ごすことになり、エドワードと姉シンシア、料理人ローズと絵画教師クリストファーがやって来るが、父だけは姿を見せない。優雅な日々を過ごす一方でどこか不安な空気が漂うなか、ついに姉が感情を爆発させたことで、家族が抱えてきた問題が浮かび上がってくる。
監督: Joanna Hogg
脚本: Joanna Hogg
制作: Gayle Griffiths / Edward Charlton / Kiyoshi Nomura
撮影監督: Ed Rutherford
制作会社: Wild Horse Film Company
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.
