Winter Solstice

When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)

Director: Martyn Friend

Cast: Sinéad Cusack, Jan Niklas, Geraldine Chaplin, Jason Durr, Sophie Schütt, Ralf Bauer, Peter Ustinov, Jean Simmons

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.