The Winter Lake

This is a slow drama, with a very particular style to it. Some will like it and some will fall straight to sleep. I finished it, but can't say I would watch it again. You really sort of have to understand the mentality of the lifestyle where it takes place. A couple of creepy moments.

With all due respect to others who saw the film, expecting more action or adventure, The Winter Lake was never billed as either. For me, this story is a well crafted tragedy with hints of mystery that never get fully resolved. The film is about four main characters: A single mom with a son and a single dad with a daughter. They are connected, unwillingly and unwittingly by fate which set them all on a collision course that lands them in an unspeakable dilemma. It is very intense, not recommended for younger audiences, save those who grew up to soon from an unfortunate upbringing. I highly recommend this film.

Why are so many modern films shot in the dark with such poor sound? You need a decent sound system to equalise the the sound so you can hear speech and and drop the music (especially the bass). The concept is good but delivery, as others have stated, is slow. Why did Tom have to be "emotionally disturbed" why did his mum have to look more like his sister. I managed to stay with it only because I had hoped for a good ending, it was predictable.

A movie about motherhood according to Jung. Two pasts, two mothers and their decisions. An original approach rarely seen in cinema. Nice external shots and a script with little problems. On stage, highlight for the Anson Boon's work.

Great acting. Great story. Very well directed. Nothing was wrong about this movie. People say its boring but they just looking for a wrong place for fast paced action movies :)

It's a fairly decent movie, a little draggy, but why don't they buy some lights if they want to be in the business? The good parts, you just watch a practically black screen and can't figure out what's happening.

Decent cast and plenty of funding. Mark McKenna (Wayne on YouTube) is a great young actor thats wasted in this film. Another boring and dull Irish film thats more about an agenda than an entertaining story. Single English mother moves to west Ireland with an oddball son. Their neighbours are a single dad and his easy kinda daughter. He threw her baby in the lake years ago and the boy finds it. Then they try to get the bones back. Long and overdrawn. And predictable. All badly written and structured characters in this film. Not nice people. But somehow there is tons of villians in a yarn with depressed, alcoholics, pillheads, bullies, dubious teenagers and unfriendly town folk. So what this film tells me is that Sligo County residents are evil, Ha ha.

There's nothing at all thrilling about this movie, so let's get that out of the way. It's a purposefully slow and colour-washed drama that is well acted but is low on story.

Tom (Anson Boon) is an extremely broody teen to the point of being dysfunctional. His single mother (Charlie Murphy ) moves into her Irish grandmother's home when she passes. Ward (Michael McElhatton ) is the single father neighbor with an outgoing daughter Holly (Emma Mackey ). Holly does not like her father. Tom discovers (early plot spoiler) a skeleton of a murdered new born in the nearby lake. Not too hard to figure out where this is going. The quiet character of Tom was deliberate but far from entertaining. This is another me-too film on the topic. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.