A review highlights that Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds, portraying a long-established couple, make 'Midwinter Break' a worthwhile experience.

The Irish literary adaptation 'Midwinter Break' is reviewed as sedate and too cold to emotionally resonate, despite strong performances from Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds.

The director, Polly Findlay (an acclaimed British stage director making her first feature), presents all of this in a stately and fastidious prestige-teleplay-of-the-week way. Adapting a 2017 novel by Bernard MacLaverty (the script is by MacLaverty and Nick Payne), she creates a generous space for her actors, who turn what might have been a rather staid movie — and still at times is — into a meticulous duet.

Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds portray an Irish couple grappling with secrets during a holiday in Amsterdam in Polly Findlay's adaptation of Bernard MacLaverty's novel 'Midwinter Break'.

Movie Review: In ‘Midwinter Break,’ a quiet marriage story with Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds  Associated Press News