A married, middle-class London couple are shocked when they seem to have been blessed — or cursed — with an immaculate conception.
Acting
Nadine Marshall's silent breakdowns should be studied
Writing
Tucker Green's dialogue snaps like a rubber band
Direction
Theatre roots show in intimate, suffocating framing
Director
Debbie Tucker Green
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Debbie Tucker Green adapted this from her own Royal Court play, keeping the theatrical intimacy that makes the domestic spaces feel like traps.
The film quietly centers Black British working-class spiritual life without explaining itself to white audiences — rare then, still rare now.
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