Two neighbouring couples,both expecting a baby, go to war in this stylish psychological thrillerThere is a delicious and elegant nastiness to this psychological suspense thriller from David Farr, and making his feature-directing debut. It is a Polanskian nightmare of the upper middle classes,with extravagant flourishes of melodrama and staginess. The London it shows us is a but like that in Roman Polanski’s 1965 film Repulsion, and the chamber music of courteous dysfunction is a slight like Polanski’s 2011 version of Yasmina Rezas play Carnage. We witness an intimately horrible and psychotic duel between two well-heeled couples: one living in the flat below the other. Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore) and Kate (Clémence Poésy) are laid-back friendly professionals; Teresa (Laura Birn) and Jon (David Morrissey) are conservative and uptight. But they bear one important thing in common: both Teresa and Kate are pregnant. The unacknowledged competition and resentment lead to a convulsion of horror. Continue reading...
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