Hot Milk: the choice to obfuscate the most about the characters of Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s drama makes it somewhat interesting (as it’s good to not have everything laid out in the open), but hard to connect to any of them. The film tells the story of a young woman who goes to Spain with her sick mother for her treatment; there, she expands her horizons as she meets another woman, in many ways the opposite of her. All characters come with a lot of baggage that interferes with how they relate to each other, but the nature of such baggage hardly ever becomes clear. Emma Mackey plays the protagonist, a dedicated daughter who nevertheless needs her wings; the performance showcases the conflict well. Fiona Shaw, as her quietly overbearing and mysterious mother, is quite good. Vicky Krieps, as a free-living woman the protagonist meets, doesn’t have much to do. Aesthetically, the film doesn’t take any risks either with the camerawork of cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt or the editing of editor Mark Towns, becoming generally unremarkable.