Anyone seen this? British film from Paddy Considine (This is England, Dead Man's Shoes) starring Olivia Colman (Peep Show, Rev, Green Wing - although this is incredibly uncomedic). It's won a BAFTA, Sundance awards, been heaped loads of praise by Mark Kermode and 82% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Joseph, an unemployed widower, plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, undergoes a life change after killing his dog in a fit of rage. Desperate to change his ways and get out of his unpleasant past and surroundings, he earns a chance of redemption when by chance he becomes close to local charity shop worker Hannah, a respectable wholesome and kindly Christian woman who takes pity on him, and they become close friends. However Hannah has a dark secret of her own which threatens to plunge Joseph back into his former life
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It's really bleak and powerful.