Two amazing performances from the female leads are the standout in this sombre often jarring movie. The first character is Lauren, who lives on the Northern Irish border with her husband living a seemingly quiet uneventful life and her traumatised sister Kelly who returns home after being missing for a year. Their troubled, strained reunion brings back the painful memories of their mother who killed herself following her husband's death in a terrorist bomb. Kelly's homecoming and increasingly erratic behaviour cause huge upheaval in Laurens life firstly with her husband, and the men responsible for her father's death to the point that the Wildfire the movie is named for starts to take them over. A poignant and heartfelt movie about grief and trauma and those who struggle to deal with it. 7/10.
Review of Wildfire
Wildfire
(2020)
A poignant and heartfelt movie about grief and trauma.
2 November 2021
Warning: Spoilers