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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

6/01/2018

The Levelling (2017)

Young woman returns to the family farm in the wake of her brother’s suicide. As she tries to figure out what happened, she also struggles to manage her difficult relationship with her father.

This is a moody little story and I wanted to like it -- I think I almost did like it -- but I always get a bad taste in my mouth when the story turns into “even when parents are terrible, it's the child's job to respect and forgive them.” I’m of the mind that if a parent sucks, you owe them nothing. 

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