UNRELATED
2007, 100′
Director: Joanna Hogg
Country: Great Britain
Distributor: Visit Films
Language: o.v. English with Italian subtitles
Anna, forty, childless, and in the midst of a relationship crisis, arrives in Tuscany to spend her holidays with the family of an old school friend, Venera. Feeling closer to teenagers than to adults, Anna spends most of her time with Venera’s children, their stepbrothers and her cousin. The sexual tension in the group is simmering, and Anna is convinced she has a second chance at life… Unrelated is Joanna Hogg’s first film for the cinema, an ambitious and intense work that describes with great subtlety the crisis of a woman in search of her own identity and the conflicts that can arise in a group of members of the British upper middle class. Featuring a young Tom Hiddleston in his debut in the role of Oackley, the son of Venera’s cousin.
The film was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at the London Film Festival in 2007.
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