A hotel. A cliff. Six lost people, looking for something, or looking to lose themselves.
Acting
Maxine Peake's brittle, desperate Elly—career-best tension.
Direction
Morley's suffocating framing turns the hotel into a purgatory.
Sound
Sparse sound design makes every silence feel like a threat.
Director
Carol Morley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in just 12 days on a shoestring budget, with actors improvising much of their dialogue.
Morley's semi-documentary approach here prefigured her later cult hit The Falling, cementing her as a voice for women's interior lives.
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