Stoker (2013)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Chan-wook Park
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode
Synopsis:
A teenage daughter and her widowed mother are taken aback by the arrival in their home of mysterious uncle Charlie, who has been sending his niece a pair of shoes each year on her birthday. As he ingratiates himself with the mother, he attracts only suspicion from the child, until that is she discovers they have something deeply disturbing in common.
Review:
Studied, eliptical re-imagining of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, full of macabre touches typical of its creator. The bond between uncle and niece is, as one would expect, more overtly eroticised than before, and the genetic dysfunction shown to be more hereditary, to disquieting effect. However, the mannered mise-en-scène will be too much for some viewers, needful of more structured, dialogue-driven storytelling.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Chan-wook Park
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode
Synopsis:
A teenage daughter and her widowed mother are taken aback by the arrival in their home of mysterious uncle Charlie, who has been sending his niece a pair of shoes each year on her birthday. As he ingratiates himself with the mother, he attracts only suspicion from the child, until that is she discovers they have something deeply disturbing in common.
Review:
Studied, eliptical re-imagining of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, full of macabre touches typical of its creator. The bond between uncle and niece is, as one would expect, more overtly eroticised than before, and the genetic dysfunction shown to be more hereditary, to disquieting effect. However, the mannered mise-en-scène will be too much for some viewers, needful of more structured, dialogue-driven storytelling.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 99m
Director: Chan-wook Park
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode
Synopsis:
A teenage daughter and her widowed mother are taken aback by the arrival in their home of mysterious uncle Charlie, who has been sending his niece a pair of shoes each year on her birthday. As he ingratiates himself with the mother, he attracts only suspicion from the child, until that is she discovers they have something deeply disturbing in common.
Review:
Studied, eliptical re-imagining of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, full of macabre touches typical of its creator. The bond between uncle and niece is, as one would expect, more overtly eroticised than before, and the genetic dysfunction shown to be more hereditary, to disquieting effect. However, the mannered mise-en-scène will be too much for some viewers, needful of more structured, dialogue-driven storytelling.