Strange Darling (2023)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 97m
Director: JT Mollner
Cast: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Ed Begley Jr., Barbara Hershey
Synopsis:
A man in a pickup chases a bloodstained blonde down a country road in Oregon, with murder in his heart.
Review:
Presented in six chapters achronologically so that the film's essential gimmick remains a surprise, this nailbiting film wrongfoots its audience in much the same way that Funny Games did. Opening as a final chapter of a serial killer cast history, that turns out to be of dubious veracity, and it ends up saying far more about the American death wish. Not much more to say without spoiling it, but it is an assured piece of direction indeed, although the dialogue could have been better recorded, or delivered.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 97m
Director: JT Mollner
Cast: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Ed Begley Jr., Barbara Hershey
Synopsis:
A man in a pickup chases a bloodstained blonde down a country road in Oregon, with murder in his heart.
Review:
Presented in six chapters achronologically so that the film's essential gimmick remains a surprise, this nailbiting film wrongfoots its audience in much the same way that Funny Games did. Opening as a final chapter of a serial killer cast history, that turns out to be of dubious veracity, and it ends up saying far more about the American death wish. Not much more to say without spoiling it, but it is an assured piece of direction indeed, although the dialogue could have been better recorded, or delivered.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 97m
Director: JT Mollner
Cast: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Ed Begley Jr., Barbara Hershey
Synopsis:
A man in a pickup chases a bloodstained blonde down a country road in Oregon, with murder in his heart.
Review:
Presented in six chapters achronologically so that the film's essential gimmick remains a surprise, this nailbiting film wrongfoots its audience in much the same way that Funny Games did. Opening as a final chapter of a serial killer cast history, that turns out to be of dubious veracity, and it ends up saying far more about the American death wish. Not much more to say without spoiling it, but it is an assured piece of direction indeed, although the dialogue could have been better recorded, or delivered.