Taglines: No neighbours, ne help, no escape.
Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a Man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.
“Retreat” is a three-hander, starring Thandie Newton, Cillian Murphy and Jamie Bell (although there is one other character with a brief speaking part). Kate (Newton) and Martin (Murphy) have gone off to an island retreat to regroup after Kate miscarries; they return to a solitary cottage on a remote island where they had been happy years earlier, thinking it might help their relationship. But Kate is withdrawn and Martin doesn’t know what to do, and the whole thing might not have been a very good idea after all.
One day, they stumble upon Jack (Bell), an injured military man to whom they are quick to offer shelter. Unfortunately, the generator in the cottage has shorted out, and the CB radio seems not to be working, so when Jack tells them that a fast-moving and lethal air-borne infection has been sweeping the world and the only way to protect themselves from it is to barricade themselves inside the cottage, they have no way of knowing whether he’s telling the truth or not.
But Jack’s decisive (and bullying) behaviour convinces at least Martin that something is going on, and although Kate initially resists and suggests that they just leave the cottage to the “crazy” man, she too is more or less bullied into submission. And it is true that something is going on, but whether they can figure it out in time to save themselves is an open question.
Retreat
Directed by: Carl Tibbetts
Starring: Cillian Murphy, David Tennant, Thandie Newton, Jamie Bell, Marilyn Mantle
Screenplay by: Janice Hallett, Carl Tibbetts
Cinematography by: Chris Seager
Film Editing by: Jamie Trevill
Costume Design by: Louise Page
Music by: Ilan Eshkeri
MPAA Rating: R for violence and for language throughout.
Studio: Magnet Films (Magnolia Pictures)
Release Date: October 21, 2011
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