Weekend

Well performed and well developed idea boils down to an effective two-hander for Cullen and New – that neither performer has gone on to a more prominent career in the intervening 15 years is a pity, but it gives this a more raw and bracing authenticity that might have been diminished from “name” stars. Haigh’s screenplay wisely sidesteps melodramatic developments and instead focuses on how micro-aggressions and revelations can bubble and fester into larger demons, especially when given the hot-house combination of enacting a new relationship in a cloistered living space. Quietly compelling and even haunting in its way.