Overview

• The film premiered Sunday at the New York Film Festival, marking Daniel Day-Lewis’s first screen role since 2017.
• Ronan Day-Lewis makes his feature directing debut and co-wrote the screenplay with his father for Focus Features.
• Early reviews commend the lead performance and the film’s atmosphere, noting cinematography by Ben Fordesman and a moody score by Bobby Krlic.
• Several critics describe the drama as slow or pretentious, citing sparse dialogue, extended confessions and late turns toward magical realism.
• Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Samuel Bottomley and Safia Oakley-Green co-star in a family-centered story set in northern England.