8/10
This was on my to-watch list since it came out 4 years ago. Being sick and finding nothing else on Netflix that inspired anything in me, I finally watched it. It was pretty much what I expected it to be, with minimal twisting and turnings. Just a really well told, mostly sad story with a few brief glimmers of hope or happiness. Katie Jarvis and Michael Fassbender are both great, and the relationship that forms between them is interesting and handled well by writer/director Andrea Arnold. It's a tricky relationship with many nuances and it's to Arnold's credit that Fassbender's character especially doesn't come off as one-dimensional. The atmosphere she creates of a poor, working-class (let's go ahead and say white trash) England feels extremely real, too, without being cartoonish.
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