Rebecca Lenkiewitz’s debut feature Hot Milk, based on Deborah Levy’s novel, will now arrive in cinemas in July. More on the film below.
UPDATE: MUBI has announced that writer-director Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s debut feature Hot Milk will now be released on 4th July instead of its original May release date. The drama recently had its world premiere at Berlin International Film Festival and is due to screen at BFI Flare later this month.
Our original story follows…
10th February 2025: Rebecca Lenkiewicz is best known as a writer, having penned the scripts for films like Ida and She Said, but she’s now moving behind the camera.
Her first feature is Hot Milk, a story of a mother and daughter under the hot Spanish sun. The film has quite the cast too; Fiona Shaw, Emma Mackey and Vicky Krieps, alongside Vincent Perez star in Lenkiewitz’s debut.
Lenkiewicz has also written the script based on Deborah Levy’s novel of the same name.
Hot Milk will have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on 14th February where it’ll screen as part of the festival’s official competition. Ahead of the premiere, MUBI has acquired the film and will be bringing the film into UK and Irish cinemas 30th May.
Here’s a full synopsis for the film:
Set in the scorching heat of a Spanish summer, the film follows Rose (Fiona Shaw) and her daughter Sofia (Emma Mackey) as they travel to the seaside town of Almería to consult Gómez (Vincent Perez), an enigmatic healer who may hold the key to Rose’s mysterious illness. But in the sun-drenched town, Sofia, trapped till now by her mother’s condition, begins to shed her inhibitions as she is drawn to the magnetic charms of a free-spirited traveller, Ingrid (Vicky Krieps).
Sofia’s increased freedom becomes too much for her controlling mother, and as the hot sun beats down, their relationship simmers with pent-up resentment and bitterness, threatening to tear the fragile threads that hold them together.
MUBI has also released a clip from the film so in the absence of a trailer, we will leave you with this taster:
