80
No other British director is making films quite like this.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
80
Time Out London by Dave Calhoun
Archipelago confirms Hogg as a daring and mischievous artist, and a major British talent whose next move will be intriguing.
60
Shot with grace and precision but paced with all the urgency of a Sunday afternoon stroll, Joanna Hogg's Haneke-lite study of an English middle class family is a well-crafted affair elevated by terrific moments.
80
This is a beautifully distilled and literally still work that lingers in the mind long after its conclusion.
100
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
In most movies, something happens; in Archipelago, many things happen, quietly yet meaningfully.
100
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
There is something exacting and audacious in it, something superbly controlled in its composition and technique. The clarity of her film-making diction is a marvel – even, or perhaps especially, when the nature of the story itself remains murkily unrevealed.
30
The Hollywood Reporter by Ray Bennett
Filmed in permanent twilight with a static camera and no music, it is gloomy and unrewarding with an oblique and uninformative script.
80
In long, static takes, Hogg calmly exposes the gulf between polite facades and repressed resentments.