Hot Milk

Set against the backdrop of a blistering hot Spanish summer, Rose (Fiona Shaw) and her daughter Sofia (Emma Mackey) travel to Almeria to consult a healer to try and diagnose Rose’s debilitating illness. With her mother more and more demanding, Sofia feels increasingly trapped, but starts to shed her inhibitions as she becomes entranced by the charms of free-spirited traveller Ingrid (the ever intriguing Vicky Krieps). Based on Deborah Levy’s 2016 bestseller, the film is beautifully adapted by writer-director Rebecca Lenkiewicz who wonderfully captures the tense relationships and the very physical intensity of the scorching summer weather.