and it's jason isaacs, martha plimpton, reed birney, ann dowd — really, really great actors.en it played at sundance, which was the virtual festival, and it's kind of now got lost in all the awards. but it's an ensemble cast like you've never seen before, um... and i looked at it and wondered whether it had started life as a play, actually, because a couple of the american actors are real, classic stage actors — martha plimpton among them. yeah, yeah — i mean, great performances — no, it didn't. and weirdly, enough, it is actually very cinematic when you consider that it is a film about four people in a room, talking. the other thing to say is the subject matter that it's dealing with may be very, very dark and very, very difficult but it is a — it is not a film about despair, it is a film about hope, and that makes it quite a hard film to sell because it is dealing with some very, very dark subject matter — school shootings and, you know, tragedies like that — but the performances are brilliant — i mean, absolutely brilliant — and i saw it, knowing nothing about it other tha