Whatever water we are born in is the one we must swim through. Most of us remain submerged and do what we can to simply keep swimming, but sometimes we surface. And sometimes we drown. In God’s Creatures we get to sink and soar through the waters of one Irish fishing village and its moment of reckoning.
This gothic Irish drama, out this Friday in the US but still without a distributor in the UK or Ireland, tells the story of a mother (Emily Watson) lying to protect her son (Paul Mescal), and a community taking sides and shattering as a consequence. There’s a tense beauty in both the routine of a working class coastal town and its immense potential to break cycles of silence and violence.
