Film No 78 (2019) August 26th. 6:45 PM LUNA PALACE Leederville.
I had a little girl once. A little baby. She was in an accident. A fire. (Lizzie explains herself to the subject of her obsession, Lola).
A tightly scripted, well cast, psychological thriller with a twist that wasn't entirely surprising. Using a universal theme of character sanity against the odds, Kim Farrant, director of Strangerland, has delved back into a world of misconstrued view-points, culminating into an ending that satisfies to a point. Lizzie (Noomi Rapace) is on medication to dull the tragedy of 7 years previous which has made her unable to function normally from day to day. Claire (Yvonne Strahovski) meets Lizzie by chance and it's her daughter Lola (Annika Whiteley) that becomes the target of Lizzies obsession. Farrant cleverly uses close-ups, mainly of the slightly unhinged but beautiful Rapace to build a tension and to heighten our experience of Lizzie's delusion. We are hopeful, like her family supporting her, she can move on and allow time to heal her deep psychological wounds. There is a twist of course and while we are never quite sure how it will end, the twist is not totally surprising. 9GUMS.
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