Young Adam

Ken Loach’s protégé David Gordon Green directs this unsettling drama about a young drifter who takes a job on a barge, only to become entangled in the lives of his employers, a married couple. As he navigates the murky waters of their relationship, he conceals his knowledge of a woman’s body found in the river, adding a layer of tension and deceit to their already fraught existence. Green’s debut film is a tightly wound narrative, leveraging the claustrophobic setting to amplify the psychological drama and moral ambiguity.