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Oct 16, 2024 · At 121 minutes, Treading Water is a little on the long side, but after it makes its central point – that life has become near impossible in modern Britain if you’re not generationally well off – it has little to say. Evans stuffs his film with a lot of elements that perhaps deserved their own film. Exploring abusive relationships, sex ...
Oct 16, 2024 · CW/TW: Drug use, addiction, violence. Gino Evans’ debut feature Treading Water is a brutal but authentic story about addiction and compulsions.Set against a harsh but beautiful backdrop of Manchester, the film follows recovering Heroin addict Danny (Joe Gill) upon his release from prison and entering into social housing to get his life back in order.
Oct 12, 2024 · Treading Water: Directed by Gino Evans. With Joe Gill, Wendy Patterson, Becky Bowe, Darryl Clark. Following his release from prison, Danny struggles with addiction and intrusive thoughts.
Gino Evans’ Treading Water is far from the easiest watch, bound to the rehabilitation of a recently released convict who we’re forced to watch relapse time and time again, but it conducts itself with absolute compassion for its lead. Evans’ lens here isn’t judgemental at all, and it makes the film’s steady descent into nightmare ...
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March 13, 2015. 4 min read. “Treading Water” is a weird and funny coming-of-age story about a boy who has the normal teenage problems: an overbearing mother, an indifferent father, no love life … and he also has a condition called Trimethylaminuria, otherwise known as “fish odor symptom.”. Trimethylaminuria is an endocrinology ...
Mar 12, 2015 · Mar 13, 2015. The movie doesn't quite hold together at times, and some of the darker elements (like what it feels like to be shamed and shunned at every moment of your life) are soft-pedaled. But it has a strange charm nonetheless. Read More.
Mar 12, 2015 · Film Review: ‘Treading Water’. Confused contrivances abound in this overly affected magic-realist fable. Emitting the unpleasant stench of over-affectation, “Treading Water” slaps together ...
