When life seems to be an ongoing holiday. On Islands, with Jan-Ole Gerster & Sam Riley
After his 2019 success with Lara (winner of the Special Prize of the Jury at KVIFF), Jan-Ole Gerster returns to the big screen with a Hitchcockian, noir-style movie that you wouldn’t recognize as his if it weren’t a character study like all of his other titles. Islands, his English-language debut, starring Sam Riley as the lead character Tom, portrays the lonely life of a tennis coach working at a luxury hotel in the Canary Islands, where he splits his time between wealthy tourist students and one-night stands with girls he meets at the local club. When Anne (Stacy Martin) and her family check in and request tennis lessons for her son, Tom soon realizes what he’s been missing: family, emotion and growth. Islands feels like a hot, arid day. You don’t know whether you want it to end or to get lost in it.
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