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"This janglingly unsettling, darkly comic psychological drama … is at heart an updated, smarter version of those psychological thrillers of the 60s and 70s." – Indiewire
Shaken by her father's death and a difficult breakup, Catherine retreats to the lakeside cabin of her friend Virginia in an attempt to heal. But their once-strong friendship begins to strain, with the constant presence of boy-next-door Rich further amplifying the simmering tension between the women.
Writer/director Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip, MIFF 14) takes a cue from Robert Altman's 3 Women and Ingmar Bergman's Persona to create a psychological drama that verges toward horror, ably helped out by Sean Price Williams' often-claustrophobic 16mm cinematography. Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss is extraordinary as the acerbic, wounded Catherine, with Katherine Waterston equally memorable as Virginia.
"Watching this thrilling new filmmaking step and auteurial voice grow is exciting stuff to witness." – The Playlist