Synopsis
Maintain control.
A woman’s carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she’s evaded for two decades.
2022 Directed by Andrew Semans
A woman’s carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she’s evaded for two decades.
Tim Headington Lars Knudsen Lia Buman Alex Scharfman Drew P. Houpt Tory Lenosky Ben Shafer Isaac Ericson Ana Leocha
復生, Resurrección, 부활, Sombras do Passado, 复生, قيامة, Воскрешение, Wskrzeszenie, Prisikėlimas, Rinascita, תחייה, Diriliş, Воскресіння, คืนชีพ
Imagine being the poor intern that has to stand there and listen to Rebecca Hall’s demented eight minute monologue and then go home and pretend everything’s fine
Fiendishly splitting the difference between the kind of low-rent parental vigilante movies that will always live on basic cable, and the kind of high-brow polymorphic freakouts that all but died with Andrzej Żuławski, Andrew Semans’ aptly named “Resurrection” may never quite reach “Possession” levels of psychic collapse (what does?), but it sure gets a hell of a lot closer than the broad familiarity of its setup might lead you to expect. In fact, the first act of this impressively deranged Sundance premiere almost seems to lure you into a false sense of security on purpose.
There have been any number of basic psychological thrillers about strong women who get dismissed as “hysterical” and/or gaslit into self-doubt when they report an…
Oh I was so into this - wickedly good, nasty performances from Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth but I also loved how the script is just constantly fucking with someone and that seesaws between us and them all the time. Much to be said on gaslighting and mothering and protecting and leaving but it’s also just such horrible fun to watch without thinking about any of it
Obviously a great actors showcase for Hall and Roth that gestures towards the abusive, unhinged grieving couple dynamics of previous arthouse allegory genre outings like Possession or Antichrist and the chilly city atmospherics/psychological unraveling of Dead Ringers (which it even cribs part of its climax from) but also suffers a bit from the same thing all these modern "elevated" movies do in the sense that it's basically got one incredibly simple idea that it hammers over and over for the majority of its runtime at a really slow, mysterious, self-satisfied pace.
I like that Hall gets to go to some uglier, more complicated places in the nuances of her expressions and there's some solid tense mood at times but there…
“Are you fucking kidding me? Fucking men. You can’t stick your dick in anything without deciding that you love it or you hate it. You don’t love me, you just annoy me. Impede my mission once more and I’ll beat you till dead.”
I think Rebecca Hall should rule the world.
i am a good mother.
bring on this stress-inducing evil psychological monster of a maternal-thriller. step by step, deeper and deeper into the womb of years of torment, gaslighting, abuse, and manipulation; days turned to years of self-healing just for one reappearance to break down walls. as the saying goes rip the band-aid off. face your demons, even if your demons are a middle-aged Tim Roth and his need for 'kindnesses'. acts of kindness and you’ll be rewarded. Rebecca Hall continues to be a force of nature, creeping up on us with these powerhouse performances; she performs best when given the hefty task of someone on the verge of a nervous breakdown. mix her intense steady gaze that lingers alittle…