“a delightfully shaggy mistakenidentity comedy” Guy Lodge, Variety
A frantic, antic nocturnal urban prologue introduces Claire (Wells) and Lisa Walker (Lowe), two
thirtysomething sisters who are seemingly engaged in ecologicallymotivated sabotage.
Bungling the theft of an industrial digger, the inept siblings escape into the countryside, where
they do prove successful in stealing a rather smaller form of motorized transport. The car they
make off with belongs to successful poets the Wilding sisters (Hannah Daniel, Claire Cage),
who were on their way to a literary retreat in the Welsh hills. The scatterbrained Walkers
capriciously decide to assume the Wildings' identity, and are welcomed unquestioningly upon
arrival at the remote farmhouse where the event is based.
Reportedly shot in just five days, Black Mountain Poets belies its minimal cost thanks to
cinematographer Ryan Owen Eddleston's fetching widescreendigital renditions of the alluringly
elemental Welsh countryside. The picture exudes a beguilingly breezy and casual
unpretentiousness that chimes neatly with the Walkers' offthecuff approach to their "art",
exemplified when Lisa semimockingly turns the banal contents of a store receipt into a dramatic
poem.
Neil Young
The Hollywood Reporter
