Watch Archipelago

A British film directed by Joanna Hogg and starring Tom Hiddleston, this is the story of a dysfunctional family on the eve of the son’s departure on an aid mission to Africa. The film is remarkable in its grounding in the reality of family dynamics, reinforced by the way it is filmed. There is no soundtrack as such, only the ambient noise of the setting. Hogg mostly uses a stationary camera without swift cuts that give the viewer the sense of looking through a keyhole at the characters and their world.