Two Tilda Swintons and a perfectly spooky atmosphere make The Eternal Daughter into an autumnal must-watch. justbrizigs' NYFF60 review:
feels like stepping into a Halloween mood board. Less compelling to me was the story about a mother and her documentary filmmaker daughter revisiting a significant family home, now a stately bed and breakfast, to mine memories for the daughter’s upcoming film.
Julie , her mother, Rosalind , and their dog, Louis arrive at the former family manor, now a near-vacant hotel. They run into problems immediately: The hotel’s curmudgeonly young clerk doesn’t have the room Julie booked available, and won’t give Julie an answer as to whether she and her mother will be able to stay in their begrudgingly gifted replacement room.
Partly to drum up her mother’s childhood memories as well as celebrate her upcoming birthday, pre-production on Julie’s film becomes complicated when she realizes that the house harbors traumatic memories for Rosalind as well as happy ones. Rosalind doesn’t necessarily view this as something that should impede her daughter . But suddenly, Julie is questioning if she has a right to bring her mother here and to try and rouse these unpleasant memories so that she may use them for her own ends.
Thus, I was slightly less taken in by the film’s narrative and more by the absolutely brilliant atmosphere that Hogg crafts with cinematographer Ed Rutherford and production designer Stéphane Collonge. The camera softens everything like an old photograph; occasional low-key source lighting blankets 90% of a given frame in darkness.
Not enough modern horror films are interested in creating spooky vibes. You find them when you seek out old Hollywood horror films like, their tone achieved as a response to the technology of the time period. But it’s clearly a vibe that’s inspired the atmosphere of, and Hogg has managed to recreate it stunningly for a modern film. As a story about a mother and daughter trying to move on from old wounds and contextualize their relationship, the film is perfectly adequate.
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