Director YOON Seongho was offered to make this film because the indie-sitcom was too big to be seen on a computer. It had to be seen bigger in a feature film. It contains his confession-like dialogue and cold, sharp introspection.
Taratoa Stappard’s brooding debut feature plunges us into the dour moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, where the British Empire’s reach casts long and twisted shadows. Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne), a young Māori teacher from Aotearoa (New Zealand), arrives in search of family truths, only to find the man who summoned her already dead and no clear path home. Stranded in an unfamilia...