TIFF '23: Jodie Comer astounds in "The End We Start From"
by Matt St Clair
The first glance of the title The End We Start From, immediately brough the past few years to mind. Once the COVID pandemic turned the world upside down, we all lived in physical and mental isolation, fearing what the coming days would bring. While the virus hasn’t disappeared, we have found ways to move forward and start anew during uncertain times. This film's nameless protagonist (a sublime Jodie Comer) experiences a cataclysmic crisis and does the same thing.
Just as the heroine has given birth to a newborn, a catastrophic flood strikes England...