Directed by Bouli Lanners (The Giants; The First, the Last) and Tim Mielants (Peaky Blinders (TV series); The Tunnel (TV series)) and starring Bouli Lanners (Astérix and Obélix: God Save Britannia; Nothing to Declare; Third Wedding), Michelle Fairley (Philomena; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1; Game of Thrones (TV series)), Cal MacAninch (Downton Abbey (TV series); Vigil (TV series); Mr Selfridge (TV series); Trigger Point (TV series)) and Andrew Still (Hollyoaks (TV series); Waterloo Road (TV series)).
Drama; 99 mins; 6+
A wonderful story set and shot on an island off Scotland, showing off its dramatic landscape through great cinematography during a stark winter; not bleak at all, despite the stark existence of the Church-going island community which is portrayed well throughout.
Phil Haubin (Bouli Lanners) is hospitalised after suffering a stroke from which he loses his memory. Released from hospital, he returns home to where he lives alone. Millie MacPherson (Michelle Fairley), called the Ice Queen by the locals behind her back, takes care of him and tells him (falsely) that they were secretly in love before his stroke.
She drives him to where he works, as a labourer on her father's family farm where he helps her brother Peter (Cal MacAninch) and nephew Brian (Andrew Still) to fence the land for the sheep that they rear.
Millie and Phil become closer, with a couple of sub-plots interweaving closely with the main storyline: the dog in his house - where did it come from? Is it his? And he appears to be estranged from his brother... But nothing is clear as he memory has completely failed him. Will it return? Will Millie be found out?
A Scottish film (in English with some French) currently being screened at Ciné Utopia.
