The 'Adolescence' star stuns as a bereaved mother seeking emotional support in James McAvoy's mysterious stranger, but Paul Andrew Williams' genre-crossing drama collapses around her.
By Guy Lodge
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Courtesy of TIFF Twenty years on from his debut feature “London to Brighton,” Paul Andrew Williams remains a tough talent to pigeonhole on the British indie film scene. His filmography veers from kitchen-sink realism to wild genre storytelling, sometimes with a supernatural bent; from the visceral, stomach-churning severity of “Bull” to the untrammelled sentimentality of “Song for Marion.” In his latest film, “Faith,” pretty much all those impulses come to roost at one point or another, which arguably makes this emotional assault course about a young working-class mother’s bereavement the director’s most quintessential work.
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