A married couple locked into the same four walls by Covid-19 lockdown is the entire premise of Together, and it turns out to be plenty. Stephen Daldry directs James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan as two people who have run out of room to avoid each other.
What is Together about?
Confined together by lockdown restrictions, a husband and wife who might otherwise have drifted apart in separate routines are forced into constant, unavoidable contact. Old grievances resurface, old habits get examined, and the distance they used to keep between arguments disappears along with everywhere else to go. Together follows the two of them, and the young son who shares their house, through the practical and emotional strain of a shared confinement neither chose, using the couple's circumstance as a way of testing what a relationship looks like once every excuse for space is removed.
About the cast
James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan carry the film as the couple at its center, playing off each other in close quarters for most of the runtime. Samuel Logan appears as their son, giving the household a third perspective on a situation the adults are struggling to manage. With a cast this small, the film rests almost entirely on the two leads' chemistry and timing.
Context & significance
Together is credited to director Stephen Daldry and was released in 2021, produced quickly enough to respond to lockdown life while it was still current. In K-Time's catalogue it is filed under comedy, horror, and short, a mix that signals a film more interested in tone than in a single genre box, closer to an intimate two-hander than a conventional horror feature. At 92 minutes, it favors close observation of one household over a wide plot.
Watching Together on Ktime
Together is available on K-Time to watch after logging into a free account, with no purchase required to read about it here. The film carries both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, letting viewers watch in Farsi or follow the original English performances with Farsi text, inside K-Time's Farsi-language interface.