There are so many things to appreciate in this series, the direction, the actors' performance, the photography, the way in which it conveys the emotions of an entire social class through the fragmented experience of different people, this sort of magical realism that pervades everything, a little sardonic and mocking, but there is one thing that I found truly unique, because it spoke to me directly, and it's hard to explain, especially in a language it's not yours. There is a special light in the place where you grew up, it's something you realize especially when you go to live somewhere else and then you return, or even the moment you realize that your adopted country has become your home. It is not "light" in the strict sense of the term, it is as if a real place reverberates inside you like a sensation, a familiar but also indefinable sensation, an absolutely personal mix of memories, emotions, everyday life, stories, interactions with people...Well Michael Sheen managed to put all this on film. Port Talbot isn't my home, I was never there, but for a moment it felt like I had come home, and honestly, to me that's more than skill and talent as director, it's almost witchcraft!
