Ashes (2015)

Ashes: Directed by Alan Coulson. With Rupert Procter, Graeme Rooney, Mark Wood, Jane Perry. After the death of his beloved wife in a devastating fire, Jonathon Soter’s life is in ruins. Drinking to excess and barely holding down his job as a teacher, he’s a man lost with nothing to live for. But the sudden news that the boy who killed his wife, Scottish born Donald McKinley, has been released early from prison, brings monumental change for Soter and gives him a new motivation. He begins a journey to a small coastal town, where he hopes to find his tormentor, to find an answer and perhaps to ultimately find redemption. Exploring the themes of loss, forgiveness, revenge and the tragedy of an existence locked in the past, Ashes is a complex character study and a thrilling dramatic modern fable.

“A wonderfully acted film with a powerful and moving ending. The film is well paced, not too slow as I have seen some reviews say. I thought the pace was right for the story of these people who are all lost and who are all stuck in the past, unable to move forward. There are a couple of sequences with hardly any dialogue that I thought were brilliant. I also thought it was quite a spiritual story, with a few religious symbols and themes.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA well told, emotional story about loss and the power of forgiveness.”