Milk

Adrian is 45 years old and lives on a farm with his mother. He has never moved away from home but has devoted himself to milking and caring for his demanding mother. One morning he finds that she is dead - and that is the starting point for Adrian and his new independent life. When relatives and local admiring girls turn up to grab whatever they can in the house, they meet something quite different. Adrian goes his own way. He shoots his mother's old parrot and picks up a beautiful hitch-hiking woman with a seductive French accent and takes her to the farm. Out goes the mother's corpse (after several turns) with all the sorrows of the old life and in comes the mysterious woman with life and pleasure.One can't complain about the Englishman's distance from the myth about his nature. It takes a capricious and high-spirited French woman to shake him out of his drab, ingrained ways and let him discover the wild, spontaneous soul he has deep down inside. Milk swings heavily between black drama, heavyweight literary quotations and comedy. It's an odd mixture of Emmerdale Farm, sharp British social realism and romantic comedy. The acting is excellent and it's definitely a film of weight and philosophical ambition. While the dreary, withered family members fight over the inheritance and classic subjects like love, life, death, and human relationships are theoretically debated, Adrian is, of course, the one to mature and broaden his mind.