Synopsis
Everyone needs a friend.
A young woman befriends a lonely widow who's harboring a dark and deadly agenda toward her.
2018 Directed by Neil Jordan
A young woman befriends a lonely widow who's harboring a dark and deadly agenda toward her.
Chloë Grace Moretz Isabelle Huppert Maika Monroe Colm Feore Stephen Rea Zawe Ashton Jeff Hiller Thaddeus Daniels Raven Dauda Parker Sawyers Jessica Claire Preddy Jane Perry Angela Thompson Georgas Rosa Escoda Graeme Thomas King Hershel Blatt Arthur Lee Nagisa Morimoto Navi Dhanoa Darragh O'Connor Tariq Azees Elisa Berkeley
Lawrence Bender Sidney Kimmel Dylan Tarason John Penotti Karen Richards James Flynn Mark O'Connor Judy Ahn
Neil Jordan Bruce Toll Ronan Flynn Richard D. Lewis Brian Kornreich Catherine Tiernan Lei Luo Yan Xu Hwang Sun-il Kim Do-su Mei Han Hong Chen Zhe Zhou
Stefan Henrix Gabriel Gutiérrez Fionn Higgins Caoimhe Doyle Ken Galvin Ray Cross Jean McGrath Megan Kiernan Lambert Windges
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment Lawrence Bender Productions Little Wave Productions Metropolitan Films International Showbox Starlight Culture Entertainment Group Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
The Widow, 그레타, В объятиях лжи, В объятиях лжи (2019), La viuda, Madame Psycho, Greta: Ďábelská past, Stalker, Грета, В обіймах брехні, Η Χήρα, Greta - osamělá žena, 遗孀秘闻, 마담 싸이코, გრეტა, 侵密室友, Greta - Viúva Solitária, Obsessão, Ördögi csapda, گرتا, גרטה, เกรต้า ป้า บ้า เวียร์ด, Smrtiaca návnada, グレタ GRETA
I NEED this to be a long running series of horror movies. So, to make it easier for Hollywood, I'll come up with titles
Greta 2: The Greturn
Greta 3: The Greckoning
Greta 4: Greta's Got a Brand New Bag
Greta 5: Gretuation Day
Greta 6: The Gretables Have Turned
Greta 7: Gretakes Manhattan
Greta 8: Greta Works In Gretail
"I don't want asparagus juice shot up my butt under any circumstances."
pretty cool how absolutely none of this is fictional and isabelle huppert just did all that when she saw chloe grace moretz
***filing this Isabelle Huppert interview as my GRETA review because the world is on fire and i can do what i want***
“Acting is very easy for me,” Isabelle Huppert said, not bragging so much as stating a fact. Sitting in a small Manhattan conference room, she leaned back and shrugged her shoulders. The famously understated French star, whose “Greta” opens this month, is as honest and direct as she appears on screen — if also warmer than you might expect from her many film roles (especially on a sunny day off from “The Mother,” the harrowing Florian Zeller play she’ll be performing for the next two months). “Everything I do as an actress is really the story of the…
55/100
Halfway through: “I’m sorry, but you can’t elevate a generic ’90s X-from-hell thriller just by casting Isabelle Huppert as the X.”
By the end: “My bad, you can absolutely elevate a generic ’90s X-from-hell thriller just by casting Isabelle Huppert as the X.”
Also features one minor but satisfying subversion of this genre’s expectations, involving a character who clearly “should” die yet repeatedly does not. But you’ll have to endure some remarkably clunky act-one dialogue, and you’ve seen 95% of what follows at least 195 times.
I learned 2 things from watching this movie:
1. It's not safe to go outside.
and
2. It's not safe to be inside.
Occupies a weird middle ground where it's not quite campy enough nor creepy enough to really resonate after you leave the theater, so it ultimately just ends up being a dumb script held up by a fun performance from Isabelle Huppert. There are shades of an interesting psychological thriller and a ridiculous B-movie in there, but the film sort of just dabbles in both until it ends. Maika's cool.
GRADE: C+
Isabelle Huppert spits her chewed up gum into Chloe Grace Moretz’s hair. Welcome to the best film of 2018.