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Norway, United States · 2014
1h 32m
Director Mona Fastvold
Starring Gitte Witt, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Stephanie Ellis
Genre Drama
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A young couple, Kaia and Andrew, are renovating Kaia's secluded family estate. Their lives are violently disrupted upon the unexpected arrival of Kaia's sister, Christine, and her fiancé, Ira.
The New York Times by Andy Webster
With strong assists from the cinematographer Zachary Galler and her ex-husband, the composer Sondre Lerche, Ms. Fastvold, previously a director of music videos, has painted a resonant tableau of dysfunction.
Entertainment Weekly by Chris Nashawaty
The setup has mysterious promise, but the film cheaps out on a satisfying payoff.
The film soon settles into a confident, well-staged groove, primarily because of two unambiguously terrific performances.
A consistently intriguing psychodrama that may nonetheless leave many viewers feeling that it’s all buildup and scant payoff.
The Hollywood Reporter by Justin Lowe
Fastvold and co-writer Corbet subscribe to the less-is-more branch of screenwriting, assuming that audiences will be drawn in by the air of mystery surrounding the sisters, when in fact the lack of narrative detail is consistently off-putting.
It’s obvious that something got lost in translation.
A darkly mysterious and extremely accomplished first feature.
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