Subtle filmmaking at its finest which demands your full attention and gives a reward.

| Feb 23, 2024

It's an amazing film, let alone debut.

| May 26, 2021

Hogg is brilliant at portraying the gamut of different shades of awkwardness and embarrassment: Anna's social and personal uneasiness is conveyed with squirm-inducing veracity.

| Nov 19, 2020

Unrelated observes the English upper-middle classes so astutely that, at times, it is almost painful to watch.

| Jan 29, 2018

This is civilized human behavior captured with a clinical precision and accuracy.

| Jun 26, 2014

Hogg works primarily with hypnotic, locked-down, wide-open compositions that seem, at times, to swallow up the people that inhabit them.

| Jun 17, 2013

This is a drama that amounts to much more than the sum of its parts and, without doubt, is one of the best, and most original, British films of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2008

The complexity of real life creeps in to comic, poignant and often uncomfortably emotional effect. A lo-fi Bridget Jones with serious balls.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2008

If Hogg can render the travails of a bunch of middle-class British holidaymakers a subject of interest, there's reason to hope she has some career in the making.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2008

Scratchy? But why not? Scratchy sounds human. In Unrelated we almost hear the charcoal on the paper as the group portrait takes shape, filled with unknown actors helping to cross-hatch their own characters.

| Sep 19, 2008

Those of you who enjoy enigmatic dramas which unfold slowly will not be disappointed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2008

If Eric Rohmer were British, this is the kind of film he'd make.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2008

However, the climactic scene - when we learn what's been bugging the sour-faced Anna all this time - proves a bit of an awkward let-down, under-written and over-acted.

| Sep 19, 2008

Unrelated is an emotionally and sometimes wince-inducingly acute debut from British director Joanna Hogg that looks and feels and sounds like few other British films.

| Sep 19, 2008

As if from nowhere, a first-time British film-maker has appeared with a tremendously accomplished, subtle and supremely confident feature, authorially distinctive and positively dripping with technique.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2008

The more relaxed the chemistry, the more taboo and tense the film becomes. It's a marvellous piece of cinema that looks as if it is being crafted before your eyes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2008

Mostly, though, Hogg displays a welcome desire to draw on global film influences and ignore the unwritten rules of what British cinema should or should not seek to achieve, especially in the realm of films about the monied and unsympathetic.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Sep 19, 2008

Hogg stages some scenes with a sure sense of composition and dramatic tension but too often the film feels self-conscious and ponderous.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2008

Well acted, superbly written drama with a strong central performance by Kathryn Worth and impressive direction by Joanna Hogg.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2008