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SUMMARY:Film Club - Iona
DESCRIPTION:     \n  \nIona \nUK       2015       85mins         Cert: TBC  \nDirector: Scott Graham                     \nStarring: Ruth Negga\, Tom Brooke\, Michelle Duncan\, Ben Gallagher  \nLanguage: English \nA striking and enthralling drama set against the stunning backdrop of the Inner Hebrides island of Iona\, director Scott Graham’s follow-up to his award-winning debut feature Shell is a real delight\, with impressively sustained performances astutely complemented by the starkly beautiful environment. It may be a modestly budgeted film\, but writer/director Graham shows remarkable control as he weaves a story that takes in family traumas\, religion\, domestic violence and pastoral glory\, but never losing track of the haunting story of a young woman whose return to the Christian community on the island of her birth is the dramatic core of the film. \nIona (a mesmeric performance by Ruth Negga\, who has found international fame thanks to her recurring role in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and her teenage son Bull (Ben Gallagher) seek refuge from a violent crime back on the island where she was raised. Her return exposes Bull to the more gentle way of life she rejected when she left the island as a teenager and also resonates amongst those friends she had once left behind. An impressive support cast also includes Douglas Henshall\, Tom Brooke\, Michelle Duncan and Sorcha Groundsell. \nThe film has a gentle intensity – part coming-of-age story and part returning-home drama – and is given real emotional resonance thanks to Ruth negga’s striking central performance combined with Scott Graham’s sure hand and tangible sense of location. Iona is a beguiling and elegant film. – Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 \n  \n
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