Sightseers’ Alice Lowe writes,directs and stars in this grisly revenge fantasy, as a woman who believes her unborn child is telling her to kill peopleFor her writing-directing debut, and showing here in Venice in the Critics’ Week sidebar,Alice Lowe returns to the grisly territory of Sightseers, the black comedy she made with Steve Oram for director Ben Wheatley. Only this is a more macabre and explicitly violent serial-killer movie, and with a fainter tint of queasy humour. It provides a nightmarish satirical twist on post- and antenatal depression: its tone is weird,its pace a remorseless, heavy tread. Related: On my radar: Alice Lowe’s cultural highlights Related: Alice Lowe: ‘I don’t intellect being the evil weirdo who murders people’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com