- The English is a haunting exploration of memory and abandonment reverberating through the lives of a mother and son. Deborah Tiso's film contrasts two key moments in a man's life, both centering around the deprivation of freedom.
- Nil Desperandum is a wonderfully imagined film about the way that abandonment in childhood shapes the rest of your life. It is both a story of a relationship between mother and son, and of the unique elements of period and place in which such a relationship founders.—Anonymous
- A haunting exploration of memory and abandonment reverberating through the lives of a mother and son. Deborah Tiso's film contrasts two key moments in a man's life, both centering around the deprivation of freedom. Beautifully shot and with an acute eye for the details of the repressed emotions of its characters, the film is a study in loss. The story unfolds as a memory, moving from the intimate safety of the boy's early childhood to the isolating experience of his boarding school in post war England, and returning finally to the present day where he finds himself on the brink of repeating the pattern of pain and abandonment.—Deborah Tiso
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