You’ll be forgiven for a lack of excitement around Young Woman and the Sea, a biopic of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim across the English Channel. The unwieldy, uninspiring title comes from the film’s source material, Glenn Stout’s book Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World, but the movie itself is far better than the marketing build-up would lead you to believe.

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YOUNG WOMAN AND THE SEA ★★★ (3/4 stars)
Directed by: Joachim Rønning
Written by: Jeff Nathanson
Starring: Daisy Ridley, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Stephen Graham, Kim Bodnia, Christopher Eccleston, Glenn Fleshler
Running time: 129 mins.

Directed by Joachim Rønning, who helmed Maleficent: Mistress of........

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