{"id":10676,"date":"2021-07-23T12:55:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T10:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.queerlion.it\/?p=10676"},"modified":"2021-07-27T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T11:01:51","slug":"ireland-the-world-to-come-tale-of-forbidden-love-in-frontier-america-that-subverts-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.queerlion.it\/en\/ireland-the-world-to-come-tale-of-forbidden-love-in-frontier-america-that-subverts-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland: The World to Come, Tale of forbidden love in frontier America that subverts expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Award-winning drama features powerful performances and gorgeous cinematography<\/em><\/p>\n

Christopher Abbott, who has lately starred in First Man, Black Bear, It Comes at Night, Possessor and Piercing, has become as essential as the filmmakers who direct him. If he\u2019s in it, it\u2019s worth seeing.<\/p>\n

Abbott is joined in this Queer Lion-winning<\/strong> frontier drama by the equally compelling Vanessa Kirby, fresh from her wrecking turn in Pieces of a Woman, as well as Inherent Vice\u2019s Katherine Waterston and Casey Affleck, who also produced.<\/p>\n

The ensemble has gathered around Mona Fastvold\u2019s thoughtful period drama
\nof forbidden love. Working from a script written by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard (the latter also wrote the story it\u2019s based on), Fastvold, who co-wrote The Childhood of a Leader and Vox Lux, brings unexpected textures to what might have been a routine LGBT period tragedy, with temporal skips, ecstatic voiceover, occasionally anachronistic phrasing, and Daniel Blumberg\u2019s thoroughly modern score framing a tale set in 1856 somewhere in rural Syracuse.<\/p>\n

Abigail (Waterston) is a dutiful, taciturn wife to dutiful, taciturn Dyer (Affleck), bonded by farm work and grief for their dead daughter Nellie. The arrival of the glamorous and witty Tallie (Kirby) and her husband Finney (Abbott), the new neighbours, awakens strange sensations in Abigail. \u201cAstonishment and joy! Astonishment and joy!\u201d she writes in her journal. Their husbands watch suspiciously as the women bond and fall for one another.<\/p>\n

Arriving as part of the recent vogue for historical lesbian romances, The World to Come is better than Ammonite and rather more carnal than the chilly Carol, if not nearly as swooning as C\u00e9line Sciamma\u2019s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, nor as fascinating as Fastvold\u2019s own writing.<\/p>\n

The director makes terrific and tactile use of the landscape \u2013 rural Romania plays the eastern United States here \u2013 with brutal winters, springtime clotheslines, and clandestine woodland encounters. Andr\u00e9 Chemetoff\u2019s cinematography is alternately glowering and gorgeous.<\/p>\n

The performances are predictably powerful given the personnel. Kirby, in particular, is a force of nature.<\/p>\n

In cinemas<\/em><\/p>\n

The Irish Times<\/a> by Tara Brady<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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