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‘Islands’ Review: There’s Trouble In Paradise In Jan-Ole Gerster’s Slow-Burn Drama – Berlin Film Festival
‘Islands’ review: There’s trouble in paradise in Jan-Ole Gerster’s slow-burn drama – Berlin Film Festival
Anne is visiting with her husband, Dave ( Jack Farthing), who also gloms onto Tom, and the polite tennis maven becomes their de facto tour guide, leading to suitably spectacular shots of the island’s beaches, pellucid skies, and caves. Probably still best known for playing a fresh-faced Ian Curtis in Control over 15 years ago, the lanky actor has grown into a gently lined middle age, with a John Hurt-like wounded creak to his voice. Tom’s orbit is neatly fleshed out with a hotel receptionist, Maria (a sly Bruna Cusí), who does favors while giving him crap about his slouching lifestyle, and a friendship with a Moroccan farmer, Raik (filmmaker Ahmed Boulane), and his wife.
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