Hot Milk

Acclaimed screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s adaptation of Deborah Levy’s modern classic is the tale of a cruel summer. Sofia (Sex Education’s Emma Mackey) travels to Almería hoping to cure her mother’s (Fiona Shaw) mysterious illness. While led down a hall of mirrors by svengali-like doctor Gómez (Vincent Perez), Rose is drawn to free-wheeling traveller Ingrid (Phantom Thread’s Vicky Krieps). But new freedoms begin to pick the scab of old resentments between mother and daughter…

One of the UK’s most accomplished screenwriters – acclaimed for her work on Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida, Sebastian Lellio’s Disobedience and most recently The Salt Path – Rebecca Lenkiewicz steps confidently into the director’s chair for this adaptation. A complex web of female relations unfolds under the Spanish sun, given real force by the three central actors who deliver performances of blinding light and unsettling shade.