★★★★ Although it is not without some melodramatic excesses, this film – a literary adaptation, moreover, something that is noticeable in its structure – has more than one interesting component. The story of a young woman abused and abandoned successively by her father and by her mother who grows up alone in a wild environment already has enough to generate the intrigue of the viewer, although it is not without the sordid underlining of the family environment, which contrasts – this use of the landscape is perfectly cinematic – with the natural universe ending up being the true homeland of the protagonist. Then there is a romance, a vocation, an attempted rape, a murder, a trial (and its prejudices), which bring the plot closer to the suspense thriller without really being one. In those moments the film becomes more trivial, more “common”, because we know how everything will be and we can even deduce the final twist. However, it is the universe that surrounds the events and the climate created by nature in contrast to human actions that draws the viewer’s attention. The vector is, without a doubt, the work of Daisy Edgar-Jones as Kya, the protagonist of this story where the natural beats the sordid but not -never- completely.
