The Weight of Water

Two stories of family jealousy and hidden passions intersect in Kathryn Bigelow’s rarely screened adaptation of Anita Shreve’s bestseller.

  • Director

    Kathryn Bigelow

  • With

    Catherine McCormack, Sarah Polley, Sean Penn, Josh Lucas

  • USA 2000. 113min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    15

  • With French subtitles

A photojournalist travels to a remote island off the New Hampshire coast to research the murders of Norwegian immigrants in the late 1800s. As she digs deeper into the story, she finds her own life paralleling that of a witness to the crime. In this sumptuous, emotionally resonant and piercingly intelligent adaption of Anita Shreve’s acclaimed novel, Bigelow (whose own mother immigrated to America from Norway) fluidly interweaves parallel stories of jealousy and repressed passions.

Please note that the print we are using has French subtitles included, but the film is in English.

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