If you're a fan of the arch stylings of Peter Strickland, such as he has deployed in films like The Duke of Burgundy and In Fabric, his debut feature may take a you a little by surprise.
Katalin Varga is an exercise in stylistic restraint and minimalism. Strickland lets his magnificent Carpathian locations do the work. Cinematographer Márk Győri shoots the verdant summer fields and forests of Romania. The haunting score by Geoffrey Cox and Steven Stapleton overlays the images…