The actor excels as an alcoholic who returns to Orkney in Nora Fingscheidt’s fine adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir
ilms about addiction and recovery tend to follow a well-trodden linear trajectory – the spiralling self-destruction and the sickening plummet towards rock bottom is followed by the painstaking, piece-by-piece rebuild of a life and a self. Which is perhaps why, with its angular, fractured structure, extended poetic longueurs and preoccupation with birdwatching, feels like a refreshingly unconventional spin on a familiar theme.
The film’s use of colour is particularly effective – at the start of the film, when Amy has returned to her family home in Orkney to dry out, the memories of her life in London seem vivid and alluring, saturated with colour and joy, as well as alcohol. Orkney, meanwhile, is shot in unpromising tones of mossy greens and subdued greys. The film’s slow reveal of the islands’ beauty is its secret weapon, as potent as the immersive, enveloping use of sound.
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