Everybody needs a friend ~ Greta

A response to Greta (2018)

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2 May

A response to Greta (2018)

Neil Jordan does 'lay it on a bit thick in places' in Greta (2018)...

Frankie (Chloë Grace Moretz) is from Boston, PA, and living in NYC, NY, for the first time, so Greta (Isabelle Huppert) must really be a lonely woman of a certain age who's suffered loss - whence black nails ? pic.twitter.com/Igk19FpSLz

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 6, 2019

Black nails : Just to raise doubts where Frankie should place her trust, her friend Erica (Maika Monroe) - a little more fittingly for her age and manner ? - also has black nails*.

It rates circa 7 / 10 (as it also over-relies not on the power of Huppert's screen-presence, but Javier Navarrete's use of v. high [or low - bowed db] string-tones), but Jordan deftly assimilates references such as Fatal Attraction (1987), Event Horizon (1997), The Future (2011).

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 2, 2019

Paint the black hole blacker

Now reviewed by @everyfilmneil, to much the same effect, at : http://everyfilmblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/328-greta-movie-review.html


End-notes :

* Or is the suggestion of some Lynchean dual-characterization (The Lost Highway (1997) or Mulholland Drive (2001)), where, on some level, Greta and Erica are the same person... ?


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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)