The Fold has a plausible story line, good acting, promising new young actors, good photography and stunning location scenery.
At the beginning, Rebecca's daughter has drowned. The pool-side table is littered with beer bottles and wine glasses. We are reminded of this several times later on and perhaps the parents bear some responsibility. A sub-title tells viewers that 11 unexplained months later, Rebecca (Catherine McCormack) and her surviving daughter Eloise (Dakota Blue Richards) come to a tiny parish church on the Cornwall coast.
Rebecca gets a part-time job at a drop-in centre in the near-by town. There, she meets Radka, from Bulgaria, who works at a huge daffodil farm and would like to go on an arts course. Rebecca offers to coach her for the required language test. Radka has problems. She has cut her wrists before, and pulls a knife on a boyfriend who she has seen talking to another girl, his cousin actually. Radka resents seeing Rebecca talking to her husband. When Radka attacks Eloise, Rebecca has to choose between comforting her traumatised daughter or rescuing Radka from the cold surf she has dived in to.
There is only one funny scene - shock and scandal when Rebecca and Radka are found asleep on the cold stone floor of the vestry.
Rebecca smokes. Does the writer really think that makes the character real? That is so unlikely for a priest.
Not really an Oscar contender, but a worthwhile look at personal relationship issues.
At the beginning, Rebecca's daughter has drowned. The pool-side table is littered with beer bottles and wine glasses. We are reminded of this several times later on and perhaps the parents bear some responsibility. A sub-title tells viewers that 11 unexplained months later, Rebecca (Catherine McCormack) and her surviving daughter Eloise (Dakota Blue Richards) come to a tiny parish church on the Cornwall coast.
Rebecca gets a part-time job at a drop-in centre in the near-by town. There, she meets Radka, from Bulgaria, who works at a huge daffodil farm and would like to go on an arts course. Rebecca offers to coach her for the required language test. Radka has problems. She has cut her wrists before, and pulls a knife on a boyfriend who she has seen talking to another girl, his cousin actually. Radka resents seeing Rebecca talking to her husband. When Radka attacks Eloise, Rebecca has to choose between comforting her traumatised daughter or rescuing Radka from the cold surf she has dived in to.
There is only one funny scene - shock and scandal when Rebecca and Radka are found asleep on the cold stone floor of the vestry.
Rebecca smokes. Does the writer really think that makes the character real? That is so unlikely for a priest.
Not really an Oscar contender, but a worthwhile look at personal relationship issues.