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‘Hot Milk’ Review: Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Spare Adaptation of Deborah Levy’s Acclaimed Psychodrama Hums With Tension – Berlin Film Festival


‘Hot Milk’ review: Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s spare adaptation of Deborah Levy’s psychodrama hums with tension – Berlin Film festival

But Almeria doesn’t look much of a romantic idyll here, at least wherever Sofia chooses to go: it’s all industrial sites, mean little lean-to cafes, rocky breakwaters and concrete boxes of holiday shacks, besieged by mosquitoes. Rebecca Lenkiewicz ’s adaptation of Deborah Levy’s award-winning 2016 novel hums with tension from the first moment we see tourists on a strip of beach in front of bald, rocky, utterly unlovely hills: Greece, actually, standing in for southern Spain. By my reading of Levy’s novel, Dr. Gomez — who doesn’t want to be addressed as Doctor, perhaps because he isn’t one — is an ambiguous kind of healer: caring but mercenary, perceptive but full of crank theories, authoritative but essentially a shyster.

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