Hermione Corfield

Morven Christie

Mark Gatiss

Will Fletcher

Ali Fumiko Whitney

Ian Pirie

Jeff Stewart

David Brooks

Felicity Keenan

Tom Byrne

Scott Miller

Alison Peebles

Luke Nunn

Sean Gilder

Liam Brennan

Leigh Biagi

Forbes Masson

Frances Grey

Caleb Johnston-Miller

Jimmy Yuill

Richie Adams

John MacKay

Robert K. Harm

Elizabeth Donker Curtius

Luke Tumber

Sam Short

Matthew Lafont

Iona Gray

Ricky Hannaway

Aimee Burns

David Ahern

Colin Jones

Samuel Vines

Andrew Crichton

Delia Letham

Rick Chefalas

Christine Cant

Morris Milne

Christine Gibson

Tony Sheridan

Thomas Reid

Guido Lerner

Elspeth Brodie

Elaine Ford

Elliott Day

Kayrin Fraser

Lawrence Zipf

Wendy Kemp Forbes

Maryilene Blondell

Ann-Marie O'Neill

Anna Mould

Emilio Schlappi

Laura McBride

Ludovic Lasserre

Jonathan Tomlin

Clara O' Keeffe

Rowena Woolford

Susie Will

Marta Noguera

Abi Ross

John Fearnley

Alasdair Mitchell

Ruaraidh Urpeth

Richard Stevenson

Michael Feuser

Kirsty Auld

Brett Lamerton

Kayleigh Sutherland

Gavin Hecker

Beth O'Donnell

Igor Nikolic

James Trusson

Carlos M. Morales

Emily Diprose

Micah Blaichman

Jeff Tinsley

Steve Shapiro

Carlos José Alvarez

Matt Mayer

Petra Korner

Gill Horn

Jim Kreutzer

Chris Stephenson

Laura Swift

Drama

The Road Dance

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With the Great War fast approaching, this story focusses on the young "Kirsty" (Hermione Corfield) who is well and truly enamoured of the slightly bookish "Murdo" (Will Fletcher). Their formal courtship follows all of the traditions of the Hebridean customs with due deference paid to the minister and the rules of the kirk. They do plan to marry, everyone expects and approves of that - but then the island's young men are conscripted. Individually, they might be posted anywhere but if they join up together, though, then they will be posted together - so a road dance is arranged to help send them on their way. Now plumbing on the island isn't what it might be, so "Kirsty" heads into the heather and that's where the story turns quite heinous. "Murdo" heads off to war completely unaware that his beloved is now the owner of an increasingly terrible secret that is going to change the life of her, her mother (Morven Christie) and sister (Ali Fumiko Whitney) forever. Tragedies for this girl are like busses, they take their time then come in clutches - and the surfeit of bad news facing the young girl forces her to drastic measures that require her family to rally round and shield her from the eyes of the curious constable (Ian Pirie) before coming to terms with a scenario that seems hopeless. This is a beautifully shot feature showing off the bleak beauty of the Isle of Lewis whilst showing us something of the sense of the slightly puritanical and fairly subsistence community that existed there in the 1930s. Corfield delivers convincingly as the plot develops, engaging charmingly with the young Fletcher then exuding some of the courage required by this young girl dealing with an unwanted situation on just about every front. The denouement is a little but rushed, but the film ultimately has an acceptable degree of completeness that stays just the right side of sentimentality.

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