Wreckers

A Guy-made Eye presentation from the Likely Story production. (Worldwide sales: Content Film, London.) Produced by Simon Onwurah. Directed, put together by D.R. Hood.With: Claire Foy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Take advantage of Evans, Peter McDonald, Sinead Matthews, Nicola Eco-friendly, June Watson, Georgie Cruz.If films have trained us anything, it's the probability of lasting happiness are stacked against urban yuppies seeking peace inside the countryside, so it's once more in "Wreckers." Playing like critics' darling "Martha Marcy May Marlene" while using genders switched as well as the weather gloomier, author-helmer D.R. Hood's intriguing, well-socialized debut draws shifting lines of conflict between its clean-scrubbed central couple as well as the black-sheep brother who invades their bucolic bliss, before losing steam inside the third act. Chilly pic reps a difficult sell extending its love to home auds, although rising star Benedict Cumberbatch might lure some. Per press notes, Hood states have grown to be up inside an British village such as the sleepy Fens hamlet described here, and her film is clearly posited just like a contempo to experience a great British tradition of rustic what-lies-beneath storytelling, dating back to radio cleaning cleaning soap "The Archers" and beyond. You will discover tonal parallels here with Ali Smith's 2005 novel "The Accidental," since the pic mistrustfully regards city-dwellers' community-minded affectations such conditions. The narrative wastes short amount of time creating the fragile marital setup of around the face still-smitten Beginning (Claire Foy) and David (Cumberbatch), who've recently gone to live in David's gray childhood village to start their family members -- a project the early scene in the fertility clinic determines remains fighting to attain fruition for some time. The move, meanwhile, appears to learn workaholic academic David greater than it'll schoolteacher Beginning, who's frequently left alone to deal with challenges of remodeling their failing country pad. When David's scruffier brother Nick (Take advantage of Evans), a soldier on leave from Afghanistan, seems surprise by themselves doorstep, it doesn't initially appear odd that Beginning is much more happy for his company than her husband is. It is not extended, however, just before the seriously Publish distressing stress disorder-stricken Nick begins dredging up uncomfortable family recollections that suggest the David whom Nick was elevated with is not the same as the man Beginning married. The behavior of three principals takes a funny turn, in manners that feel alternately unsettling and abnormally script-triggered. If Hood progressively expires of how to bend this brittle character triangular -- Nick's arc is unsatisfyingly limited since the script changes focus to lesser causes in Beginning and David's marriage -- she warrants credit for building and taking care of the film's remarkably moldy mood, too for drawing a trio of smart, splintery performances from her vibrant youthful leads. Evans is particularly impressive in the tight, nervy turn resistant against the role's chance of wild-eyed showboating. Effectively edited production helps to make the nearly all clearly limited assets (we never begin to see the outdoors from the couple's house, to start with). Annemarie Lean-Vercoe's intelligent lensing is seasonally evocative, which is always to say mostly overcast, while Andrew Lovett's score, having its unforeseen inflections of fiddle and accordion, strikes an ironically pastoral note.Camera (color, 16mm-to-35mm), Annemarie Lean-Vercoe editor, Claire Pringle music, Andrew Lovett production designer, Beck Rainford costume designer, Rebecca Gore appear, Ben Collinson. Examined at London Film Festival (New British Cinema), March. 24, 2011. Running time: 86 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com