Still from On the Sea (2025), by Helen Walsh.
Still from On the Sea (2025), by Helen Walsh.
On the Sea
Directed by Helen Walsh (UK, 2025, 111 min.).
Set in a rugged North Welsh fishing community, novelist-turned-filmmaker Helen Walsh’s second feature follows Jack, a married mussel farmer whose settled domestic life is quietly unsettled by the arrival of a younger itinerant deckhand. As attraction intensifies, long-suppressed questions of masculinity, obligation, and desire surface, reverberating through family and community ties. Anchored by Barry Ward and Lorne MacFadyen’s restrained performances and shaped by Walsh’s tactile sense of place, this slow-burn erotic drama pairs windswept coastal imagery with a candid exploration of midlife longing and the risks of emotional awakening.
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