Keswick Film Club - A Good Woman is Hard to Find

You are viewing the old version of our website.

Please visit our current website for all the latest information.

Sunday 26th January 5:00 PM

A Good Woman is Hard to Find 

Director: Abner Pastoll Country: UK
Cert: 18 Year: 2019 Length: 97 mins
A Good Woman is Hard to Find

Programme Notes

Cinema Handout (PDF 102KB)

Audience Reaction

Score: 67.09% Attendance: 113

Reviews

Links

Synopsis

Members' Choice

Hold on to the edge of your seat; tonight we are off for this Seasons's gritty crime drama. Her husband is dead and the police won't believe it was murder; her son has gone totally mute since he died; she is living in poverty in Belfast and her mother looks down on her plight as "the wrong life choices". What more can go wrong for Sarah Collins?

Well, it hasn't even started yet. When a loser drug dealer breaks in to her home and insists on hiding some drugs there, "just for five days", it might not have been too bad, but he has stolen them from a big-time drug lord...who wants them back...

"Sarah reacts against criminals, she's patronised, ignored, irritated and hit on by almost everyone – a supermarket security guard who takes her for a hooker, a social worker who assumes a broken window must be her fault, police more interested in a noise complaint than a killing, and her endlessly disappointed mother" - Kim Newman, Sight & Sound.

Sarah is forced to go from frightened, grief-stricken widow, put upon by an uncaring system, to protective parent, to gun-toting film noir blonde.

Some great acting holds the plot together - "Sarah Bolger makes a slightly implausible character arc completely convincing, graduating from panicky improvisation to grim determination [ably supported by] Edward Hogg, as the teeth-baring Mancunian crime boss prone to discoursing on the correct use of metaphor [who] confirms his standing as a sorely underused asset of the UK film industry" - Phil Hoad, Guardian

Critics

open_quote A Good Woman is Hard to Find is a damn solid piece of drama that is brutal yet effective. close_quote Starburst


open_quote The opportunistic genre-welding holds together thanks to vivid performances. close_quote Guardian


Trailer


Comments

comments powered by Disqus

Find A Film

Search over 1375 films in the Keswick Film Club archive.


Film Festival

Festival Logo

27 Feb - 1 Mar 2020


Friends

KFC is friends with Caldbeck Area Film Society and Brampton Film Club and members share benefits across all organisations


Awards

Keswick Film Club won the Best New Film Society at the British Federation Of Film Societies awards in 2000.

Since then, the club has won Film Society Of The Year and awards for Best Programme four times and Best Website twice.

We have also received numerous Distinctions and Commendations in categories including marketing, programming and website.

Talking Pictures Talking Pictures The KFC Newsletter
Links Explore the internet with Keswick Film Club
Find Us On Facebook