Rain: “under the surreal glare of a sunburnt hangover”

“A detached study of sleepy domestic torpor seizing up into tragic desperation, Christine Jeffs’s debut feature, Rain, bears resemblance to The Virgin Suicides and Ratcatcher […] Jeffs’s compositions are clean and evocative; and aided by John Toon’s cinematography, the film transpires under the surreal glare of a sunburnt hangover”.