The Fold **
Dir: John
Jencks. With: Catherine McCormack, Marina Stoimenova, Dakota Blue Richards. 89
mins. Cert: 15
What curious, ill-fated
hybrids lurk in our film industry’s lower reaches. This particular bungle
begins as a somewhat stilted, Farage-baiting social conscience drama, as
Cornish priest Catherine McCormack starts mentoring a self-harming Bulgarian
daffodil picker, partly to fill the void left by her eldest daughter’s passing.
Having taken what feels like several lifetimes to establish this umbilical
bond, however, the film wraps it around its own neck, with a lurch into
thriller territory that winds up repositioning the migrant as an entirely
disruptive force. McCormack’s intelligence has been too long from our screens,
but it’s wasted on a film that gets sillier and less sympathetic by the minute.
The Fold is now playing selected cinemas.
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