Upcoming summer sizzler Hot Milk sees Sex Education and Barbie star Emma Mackey and all-time great Fiona Shaw star as mother and daughter in the movie adaptation of Deborah Levy’s prize-winning novel of the same name.
It takes the pair abroad as they seek medical care for mother Rose (Shaw)’s “mysterious illness” and explore the complex, codependent, ultimately defining dynamics that exist between mother and daughter, and what it means when a daughter strikes out on her own.
Nikos Nikolopoulos
This one’s been in the works for a while, and we predict it will be worth the wait, seeing these two perform together. Here’s everything we know so far about Hot Milk.
Nikos Nikolopoulos
Hot Milk plot
The film’s plot synopsis foreshadows a seriously tense and dramatic mother-daughter relationship, forged between Emma and Fiona’s characters.
“Set in the scorching heat of a Spanish summer, the film follows Rose (Fiona Shaw) and her daughter Sofia (Emma Mackey) as they travel to the seaside town of Almería to consult Gómez (Vincent Perez), an enigmatic healer who may hold the key to Rose’s mysterious illness,” it reads.
“But in the sun-drenched town, Sofia, trapped till now by her mother’s condition, begins to shed her inhibitions as she is drawn to the magnetic charms of a free-spirited traveller, Ingrid (Vicky Krieps). Sofia’s increased freedom becomes too much for her controlling mother, and as the hot sun beats down, their relationship simmers with pent-up resentment and bitterness, threatening to tear the fragile threads that hold them together.”