Keswick Film Festival

Synopsis

A young, pregnant Irish girl is in Birmingham looking for her feckless lover when she meets Mr Hilditch (Hoskins in brilliant form), a quiet and caring canteen manager who offers her a lift and friendly advice. Atom Egoyan is a master of creating disturbing cinema and this gripping adaptation of the William Trevor novel is like nothing else you will see in the cinema today. Look out also for his award winning films, Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter