We detect a visible and immediate connection between Abigail and Tallie’s blushing peaches-and-cream faces. Everything feels dead-end in their lives, until Tallie and Finney ( Christopher Abbott) arrive. The two are grieving after tragically losing their young daughter to illness. Sadly, they rarely do, and co-writers Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard (adapting Shepard’s short story) don’t furnish their script with enough anticipation for the audience to nibble on.īefore meeting Tallie, Abigail’s life is defined by the hard farm work she bears alongside her wistful husband Dyer ( Casey Affleck). But the film’s strangely wooden timbre reigns over it to overpowering effect, making you wonder when its lead characters would at long last break out of it. What emerges between Abigail and Tallie ( Vanessa Kirby), a flame-haired new neighbor renting a nearby farm with her abusive husband, is a soulful affair you unambiguously root for.
But Fastvold’s feature, which unfolds across four seasons, hits on it so ceaselessly that one often craves the jolt of energy that a yarn centering on an against-the-odds romance should exude. It isn’t that pensiveness is necessarily the wrong note for a story of doomed love that blossoms in an intolerant and patriarchal era and society. Yes, Abigail is forlorn and the exceedingly melancholic, often sleepy “The World to Come” won’t let you forget it even for a moment even when this delicate woman with a broken spirit finally (albeit briefly) finds love and companionship in secret.
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