Sofia takes a picture of Ingrid, her summer friend, at her sewing table.
Even the sea, her cool blue refuge, teems with poisonous tentacles.
We should have rented somewhere else, sniffs her mother Rose (Fiona Shaw) from her wheelchair.
Emma Mackey and Fiona Shaw in ‘Hot Milk’Nikos Nikolopoulos / MUBI
I like it here, says Sofia mutinously.
Its a very low-level mutiny.
Fetching and carrying for her mother is Sofias life.
What game is she playing?
Nothing is right here.
Nothing is right with anybody.
Although, of course, that may be a lie.
The past can be endlessly contested.
Mackey plays subtly on Sofias petulance; Shaw finds a pathos in Roses chosen identity as an invalid.
you’re able to like Sofia or not, sympathize with Rose or not.
As Gomez might say, it is that response that is the real reveal.
