striking distance
It could have been a car park in Budapest or an ice rink in Scotland. But then Andrew Haigh, the writer/director best known for such intimate character studies as Weekend, TV’s Looking and the Bafta-nominated 45 Years, put his foot down. If he was going to adapt The North Water, Ian McGuire’s visceral, fictional account of a doomed whaling mission in the 1850s, it had to be shot in the north. Further north, in fact, than any drama has ever filmed before.
“I was terrified!” Haigh laughs, recalling the stretch of
