Sentences with phrase «messy emotional heft»

It's been 18 months and two more viewings since I was first wowed by Andrea Arnold's sink - estate drama, and Fassbender's is the performance that reveals more at each turn: as the kindly boyfriend of the teen protagonist's neglectful mother, his delicate negotiation of the queasy divide between parental and sexual impulse gives the film its messy emotional heft, but he's responsible for some unexpected stabs of joy too.