WHO’S IN IT?
Emily Mortimer (Mary Poppins Returns), Robyn Nevin (Angel Baby), Bella Heathcote (The Neon Demon), Chris Bunton (Little Monsters), Jeremy Stanford (Blinder), Steve Rodgers (Goldstone)
WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?
Natalie Erika James (film debut), director, writer; Christian White (film debut), writer; Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), Riva Marker (Beasts of No Nation), Anna McLeish (Snowtown) and Sarah Shaw (Partisan), producers; Brian Reitzell (The Bling Ring), composer; Charlie Sarroff (American Bistro), cinematographer; Denise Haratzis (Look Both Ways) and Sean Lahiff (Jungle), editor
WHAT’S IT ABOUT?
When her elderly mother Edna (Nevin) suddenly disappears, Kay (Mortimer) and her daughter Sam (Heathcote) travel to their family’s decaying countryside home, where they find numerous signs of her increasing dementia scattered about the house. When Edna returns just as mysteriously as she vanished, and begins acting incredibly volatile, Kay and Sam begin to suspect that something may have taken a hold of her…
IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?
The horrifying directorial debut from Natalie Erika James is a tense and utterly chilling examination of dementia, which has already taken audiences in America by storm during the COVID-19 pandemic.
