Andrea Riseborough is a robust actor who might carry emotional complexity to a tomato ketchup advert. Right here she is intense in an understated means as a grieving mom who turns into satisfied that the lady subsequent door is her daughter, again from the lifeless. That reincarnation storyline will not be unfamiliar, and to be trustworthy it made my coronary heart sink a bit at first. However this atmospheric and unsettling slowburn drama from Northern Eire pulls it off, simply.
Riseborough performs a girl referred to as Laura whose daughter Josie died a number of years earlier; she lives in Antrim together with her husband Brendan (Jonjo O’Neill) and their teenage son Tadhg (Lewis McAskie). They're a household getting on with it, bearing the insufferable. However beneath the dinner-table banter, you sense that every of them is alone with their grief. Riseborough indicators Laura’s loss and longing in each motion; it’s there in the best way she holds herself stiffly upright, like she would possibly fall other than heartbreak. When 10-year-old Megan (Niamh Dornan) strikes in subsequent door, Laura invitations her spherical for tea and picks her up from college within the automobile. Megan seems to know issues that solely Josie would know, remembers locations that she will’t probably have seen. Laura begins to believes she is Josie.
This authentic-feeling portrait of household grief then unfolds into one thing extra uneasy, and director Stacey Gregg whips up the temper of a horror movie. There’s a jangling rating and unnerving camerawork: a creepy drone shot of the household’s bizarre semi initially and interiors shot in a means that makes the home really feel eerie.
The query of whether or not this can be a ghost story or if Laura is experiencing a form of psychological breakdown twists and turns in ways in which misplaced me by the tip. Nonetheless, it’s is a really completed debut from Gregg, and acted with subtlety and sensitivity by Riseborough.
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