MOVIE REVIEW: men_movie's mix of gender and myth is saved by its villain.
director Alex Garland has inadvertently made a big-screen addition to the show, although any humor in the heavy-handed, the instigating moment is the arrival of an outsider in a less-than-idyllic village. Harper is fleeing London after a horrifying incident, and has rented a small mansion to recuperate and emotionally heal.
Garland is an undoubtedly stylish director, adept at intriguing set-pieces that are always luxuriously captured by his longtime cinematographer Rob Hardy. If's dance, then it's when Harper plays a game of echoes with a seemingly endless abandoned rail tunnel. Elation at her discovery turns to fear, and a level of malice hangs over everything.
's Royston Vasey. Even burdened with some questionable prosthetics and one particular face-swapping effect that looks like outtakes from Aphex Twin's"Come to Daddy" video, it's his performance that comes closest to providing some kind of coherence. Through one face on many bodies, he depicts the cavalcade of small and huge violences and impositions that men place upon women every day.
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