Calibre review: A dark, emotionally exhausting Netflix film that stuns you
The film tests the limits of humanity, friendship and cruelty, and
shows two young men swept away by the currents of a series of cover-ups and
their consequences
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the end it’s all about the choices that make or break a person. Or is it?
When
Vaughn (Jack Lowden), cradling his newborn child, stares chillingly at the
camera for a few seconds, he must have been lost in the puzzle that begins during
a nightmarish Highland deerstalking trip.
Writer-director
Matt Palmer’s Calibre, now streaming on Netflix, dwells on the premise of
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, and transcends into a grim tale about
the unfortunate choices Vaughn and his friend, Marcus (Martin McCann), make
after a mind-numbing mishap. Their guilt, angst and helplessness are magnified
against the backdrop of an economically stagnant Scottish countryside where the
locals are the law of the land.
In
its 1 hour 41-minute runtime, Calibre, this year’s best British feature at
Edinburgh film festival, takes sharp turns through the woods dotted with tall,
dark trees and the sombre village in the vicinity, often captured in brilliant
low-light cinematography.
Palmer’s
debut feature tests the limits of humanity, friendship and cruelty, and shows
two young men swept away by the currents of a series of cover-ups and their
consequences that deny them the courage to face the truth.
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