Hot Milk (2025)

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She Said and Ida writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of Deborah Levy’s 2016 novel about the complex relationship between a mother and daughter on holiday in Almeria in Spain. Fiona Shaw plays the wheelchair bound mother opposite Emma Mackey as her long-suffering, directionless daughter, with Vicky Krieps playing an infuriatingly enigmatic traveller who crosses the latter’s path. UK novelist Levy’s work is proving fertile territory for filmmakers, with Justine Anderson’s adaptation of her 2011 novel Swimming Home selected for the 2024 edition of Sundance. We hear Hot Milk is likely for Berlin.