‘Book Club: The Next Chapter’ Review: You’re Going to Need a Lot of Wine to Enjoy This Sloppy Sequel She also intentionally keeps her distance from other African migrants (even those who try to help her), though what seems initially like denial about her circumstances eventually turns out to be much more complicated. Jacqueline appears to be a refugee for all intents and purposes, though her English accent makes it slightly easier for her to pass as a tourist, which comes in handy when sneaking into outdoor restaurants and cafes to quietly nab discarded morsels. By tethering itself to Erivo’s layered performance, as a woman who carries the weight of her past on her shoulders, “Drift” seldom needs to provide clear answers in order to be devastatingly effective. The third feature by Singaporean director Anthony Chen (“Ilo Ilo”), from a script by Susanne Farrell and Alexander Maksik (the latter of whom wrote the novel on which it was based), the movie skillfully bides its time over 90 minutes before revealing anything at all about its protagonist, or how she ended up wandering a tourist destination, like a spirit without purpose. There are few shots in “ Drift” which don’t feature Cynthia Erivo’s Jacqueline - a Liberian woman educated in England, who ends up stranded in Greece - and the film is all the better for it.
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