Tensions simmer in exclusive clip from Emma Mackey’s sapphic summer movie Hot Milk

Mother-daughter tensions simmer in the summer sun in a brand new clip from new sapphic movie, Hot Milk.

Hot Milk is adapted from Deborah Levy’s Man Booker Prize-nominated 2016 novel of the same name. It follows mother and daughter duo Rose (Killing Eve’s Fiona Shaw) and Sofia (Sex Education’s Emma Mackey) who travel to a Spanish coastal town in search of a cure for Rose’s mystery illness.

Yet Sofia dreams of escaping the oppressive relationship with her mother and, while trawling the beaches of Spain in search of freedom, she meets enigmatic seamstress Ingrid (Corsage star Vicky Krieps), and the pair begin a turbulent summer romance.

In a new clip shared exclusively with PinkNews, the relationship between Sofia and her irascible mother is clearly fractured as the two bask in the intense Spanish heat.

A stone-faced Sofia pushes her wheelchair-bound mother under a parasol at a market, before Rose slaps Sofia’s arm and demands to buy a watch from a street hawker.

Sofia then asks whether her estranged father Christos (Vangelis Mourikis) ever owned a watch.

“Sort of digital horror, he had. With lights… I sort of fell in love with the way his hair fell,” Rose says, before adding: “You have different hair.”

Rose then calls the street hawker over and paws through his stock, batting away his hand when he suggests a watch.

The clip hints at their relationship splintering even more as the film goes on.

Speaking to PinkNews earlier this year, the film’s director Rebecca Lenkiewicz praised how Mackey and Shaw worked together to build mother-daughter chemistry.

“They really connected and were kind of thrown in together. I think both of them had such brilliant takes on their own character that they were instantly mother and daughter,” she shared, adding that that Mackey would push Shaw around in the wheelchair between takes.

“You’d see them around set with Emma negotiating little bumps. It was sort of moving and very authentic.”

Fiona Shaw also recently spoke to PinkNews about how she and Emma Mackey worked together on their on-screen bond.

“We had thought about maybe living in a little flat in Hackney for a while just to [be] together to see what that would be like, to do a journey [in the] wheelchair, [to go to the] post office, library,” she shared.

“We didn’t do that, but actually being in Greece – because it was filmed in Greece so it’s set in Spain – there was a kind of an intensity about us all, you know. It’s quite a small group.”

Hot Milk is out in US cinemas now and will arrive in UK cinemas on 4 July.

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