Una

Una

2017 "Absence makes the hurt grow stronger"
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6.2 | 1h34m | en | Drama

When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.

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6.2 | 1h34m | en | Drama , Thriller | More Info
Released: October. 06,2017 | Released Producted By: Film4 Productions , Bron Studios Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://bronstudios.com/portfolio/una/
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When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.

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Cast

Rooney Mara , Ben Mendelsohn , Riz Ahmed

Director

Louise Lannen

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Film4 Productions , Bron Studios

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TxMike My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library.Many viewers will feel uncomfortable with the subject, a 3-month affair between an adult man and his neighbor, a 13-yr-old girl. However it is done with enough sensitivity that everything is merely suggested, along with dialog that explains what happened.Set and filmed in England, essentially 15 years later, now 28-yr-old Una looks up the man she had been intimate with, he had served his time and had changed his name, was now married and had a good job as a supervisor. She is intrusive, she is demanding, she had cared for the man and never got over what she considered abandonment when they decided to travel to Europe together.The story plays out to show how the bad decisions made those years earlier had wrecked the life of the young girl into her adulthood, and how now is came back to haunt him. This is fiction but these types of stories really happen, we learn about them on the news all too often.Ruby Stokes is really good as the young Una while Rooney Mara shines as the adult Una. Ben Mendelsohn is also very effective as the man, Ray, who changed his name to Peter. No pun intended, I suppose.
krocheav Una is: Exploitation at best ~ movie making and writing at its cheapest. Badly paced: Shot in a very large factory warehouse so the camera can simply follow characters as they wander from one side to the other then down corridors - moving in and out of various rooms to painfully pad out the length of this 50min (maximum) story to full feature length. It's a sensationalistic story, where the audience is turned into voyeurs as we are forced to eavesdrop while the writer and director gloat over numerous vile situations - involving an older married man interfering with a 13yr old girl. Very little class on display here - simply movie makers attempting to add an arty veneer over some overripe paedophilia obscenities. Even the supposed shattering climax is not delivered but ends up looking more like another lame excuse. I suppose this gives academia and movie aficionados an excuse to psychoanalyse the 'lives' of artificial (spelt 'Fake') characters & writings. From the look of the low box-office returns - the majority of audiences need more than vulgar details to qualify for their time and money. Expect a few walkouts on this offering.
smoke0 Yes, this film is well done, thought provoking, etc., with all the deserved kudos given it, but my one problem with both this film and another, also referenced by another commenter, The Girl in the Book, is that both actresses could have and should have portrayed their younger selves. Nobody's physical appearance changes that much from teens to twenties, even into early thirties, and it's just always jarring to see a completely different actor who never looks or acts anything like their older counterpart. Rooney Mara could easily have played younger, as could the other actress in the other film, and the problem with both is that the younger actresses in both films steal so much focus that it's hard to go back to viewing the older actresses within the same story without having to consciously and constantly adjust, which, to me, anyway, ruins the flow.
fawn_jane Going in, I thought this would be a revenge movie or something. I kept waiting for the twist, for the "something", but it never came. The dialogue is maudlin yet tedious, the characters act nothing like real people would behave in that situation. Character development or plot arcs nowhere in sight.Instead the movie plods along, slowly and nauseatingly recounting the sordid yet mundane history of the relationship of the main characters. Nostalgic, sentimentalized shots of pedo and little girl at the park as the wind blows through the grass, pedo and the little girl at the amusement park on the ferris wheel, pedo and little girl in the bedroom, a wistful shot of their fingers intertwined. Nothing graphic, but still, it's totally absurd. How did this movie even get greenlit?