Men (2022)
Country: GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Alex Garland
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu
Synopsis:
Traumatised by her husband's suicide, a woman takes a rural holiday let in Gloucestershire, but the tenant and villagers (who are all men) look very much alike, and seem to be exacting some kind of retribution.
Review:
The lone woman set-up is of course now a cliché - one thinks of Fear in the Night (1972) with Judy Geeson - and this chiller is careful to avoid the obvious pitfalls. Thus there are no creaking doors and flapping windows, or "I'm not going crazy" protestations to dubious public officials. What you do get are baffling details (the Green Man?), a few red herrings (dodgy phone signal) and a show-stealing chameleon turn from Kinnear, as Garland concretises the self-lacerating process of guilt in the psyche of his heroine, who turns out to be something of a man killer after all. Buckley is very good, the sound design overlays the screams and shouts of bedlam, and the camerawork and production design are virtuosic to be sure. Some, however, may find their brow furrowed up to and beyond the enigmatic finish.
Country: GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Alex Garland
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu
Synopsis:
Traumatised by her husband's suicide, a woman takes a rural holiday let in Gloucestershire, but the tenant and villagers (who are all men) look very much alike, and seem to be exacting some kind of retribution.
Review:
The lone woman set-up is of course now a cliché - one thinks of Fear in the Night (1972) with Judy Geeson - and this chiller is careful to avoid the obvious pitfalls. Thus there are no creaking doors and flapping windows, or "I'm not going crazy" protestations to dubious public officials. What you do get are baffling details (the Green Man?), a few red herrings (dodgy phone signal) and a show-stealing chameleon turn from Kinnear, as Garland concretises the self-lacerating process of guilt in the psyche of his heroine, who turns out to be something of a man killer after all. Buckley is very good, the sound design overlays the screams and shouts of bedlam, and the camerawork and production design are virtuosic to be sure. Some, however, may find their brow furrowed up to and beyond the enigmatic finish.
Country: GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Alex Garland
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu
Synopsis:
Traumatised by her husband's suicide, a woman takes a rural holiday let in Gloucestershire, but the tenant and villagers (who are all men) look very much alike, and seem to be exacting some kind of retribution.
Review:
The lone woman set-up is of course now a cliché - one thinks of Fear in the Night (1972) with Judy Geeson - and this chiller is careful to avoid the obvious pitfalls. Thus there are no creaking doors and flapping windows, or "I'm not going crazy" protestations to dubious public officials. What you do get are baffling details (the Green Man?), a few red herrings (dodgy phone signal) and a show-stealing chameleon turn from Kinnear, as Garland concretises the self-lacerating process of guilt in the psyche of his heroine, who turns out to be something of a man killer after all. Buckley is very good, the sound design overlays the screams and shouts of bedlam, and the camerawork and production design are virtuosic to be sure. Some, however, may find their brow furrowed up to and beyond the enigmatic finish.