60
If Eric Rohmer were British, this is the kind of film he’d make.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
80
Time Out London by Dave Calhoun
Hogg displays a welcome desire to draw on global film influences and ignore the unwritten rules of what British cinema should or should not seek to achieve, especially in the realm of films about the monied and unsympathetic.
40
A thinly scripted mood piece centered on an estranged fortysomething among vacationing friends in Italy, Unrelated doesn’t carry the viewer along with its protag’s emotional problems.
100
The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young
Hogg achieves remarkable results with the most minimal of means. Camerawork and editing are consistently on the money, while performances and dialogue feel utterly fresh, spontaneous and believable.
40
Hogg stages some scenes with a sure sense of composition and dramatic tension but too often the film feels self-conscious and ponderous.
80
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
As if from nowhere, a first-time British film-maker has appeared with a tremendously accomplished, subtle and supremely confident feature, authorially distinctive and positively dripping with technique.
90
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
This is civilized human behavior captured with a clinical precision and accuracy.