Hope Dickson-Leach's film 'The Levelling' tells the bleak story of Clover, a young vet (and farmer's daughter), who returns hometo her depressed, irrational father after the suicide of her brother. The personal drama is convincing, but leaves you thinking that her sibling might have had the best of it. The acting (from David Troughton and Ellie kendrick in the lead roles) is better than the plot, which is devoid any sense of the possibility of hope; instead, we watch the final chapter of a family, already broken, finally falling apart. Some counter-balanacing elements to the story would not have gone amiss.
Review of The Levelling
