Set in 1925, Ambleside follows a teenage orphan pulled out of England and dropped into a household she does not recognize, where the people meant to protect her turn out to be the ones she has the most reason to fear.
What is Ambleside about?
Seventeen-year-old Lucy Gladwell arrives at her uncle George Huyton's estate expecting shelter and finds herself charmed first by the sheer opulence of the place, from its grounds to its rhythms of privilege. That charm curdles quickly once George's real temperament surfaces: a man who postures as a guardian while behaving as anything but. Lucy's one steady point in the household is Krishna, a laborer on the neighboring plantation, and the film builds its emotional core around the pull between them as Lucy is forced to see past the surface of her new surroundings and reckon with who is actually protecting her and who is not.
About the cast
Ellie Bamber leads as Lucy, with Rupert Penry-Jones and Mehdi Dehbi rounding out the household drama, alongside Rhona Mitra, Edward Akrout, Amy Beth Hayes, Hugo Stone, and Anusha Prakash. Director Mitch Jenkins assembles a cast spanning several countries of production, reflecting the film's UK–South Africa co-production roots, and the ensemble carries the period setting through performance rather than exposition.
Context & significance
Ambleside sits in the period-drama and romance space, using its 1925 setting to frame a story about power inside a household as much as a love story outside it. At 108 minutes, the film gives itself room to build out Lucy's world gradually, letting the estate's beauty and its danger reveal themselves at the same unhurried pace, a structural choice that period romance often relies on to earn its emotional payoff.
Watching Ambleside on Ktime
Ambleside is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking audiences follow both the dialogue and the period detail in their own language. Browsing the film's page costs nothing; watching it requires signing in with a K-Time account, part of a platform built with a Farsi-first interface for Iranian viewers wherever they are.