A web of generational family secrets is bathed in the poignant light of the past.
Not a drop of suffering is spared in writer-director Michael Sarnoski’s unorthodox take on a legend.
The loneliness of a danger only you can see takes the concept of torment to an airless, ambiguous place.
In a century of blended summers, everything old is new, then old, then new all over again for the women of a German family.
Delusion and greed implode with a rollout of bangs when hedonistic fun and games go south.
It’s a major plus point that Jodie Foster is easily the coolest customer in every scene.
The searing grip of director Warwick Thornton’s slow burn isn’t inclined to a bright side.
However you read its catalogue of damages, the impossible love story never gives up on itself.