Jodie Comer stars as a new mother who is forced to seek safety when London is submerged by severe floods, in an intimate poetic story of motherhood and family survival.
When an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos. As a woman (Jodie Comer) and her newborn try and find their way home, the profound novelty of motherhood is brought into sharp focus in this intimate and poetic portrayal of family survival.
“The End We Start From explores more than motherhood at the end of the world, its subject is every nuance of womanhood at any stage of life.”
Ella Kemp – London Evening Standard
“The End We Start From leaves most of its spectacle to the imagination, freeing Belo to train her camera on the whirlwind of emotions that storm across Comer’s face.”
David Ehrlich – Indie Wire
“The End We Start From isn’t a big, blockbuster disaster movie. It’s quiet and sometimes still and it asks you to think about our existence. But it’s also meaningful, finding unlikely splendour in the midst of destruction.”
Emily Zemler – The Observer
“It’s nourishing, frequently moving, and ends with heroic understatement, where a cruder film would have gone all out for the heartstrings.”
Tim Robey – Daily Telegraph
“The movie’s other strength, besides Comer, is the realism it finds in environmental catastrophe.”
Kevin Maher – The Times
“This is a story of survival, but it is by no means typical of the genre – instead it is sensory, tactile; a film that taps into an atavistic, instinctual primal quality that characterises new motherhood.”
Wendy Ide – Screen Daily
“Comer’s riveting performance, physically tense with desperation, makes us believe, at least while watching, that we’d do whatever she’s doing.”
Guy Lodge – Variety