6 Souls/Shelter

 

6 Souls/Shelter 2010

• Director: Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeffrey DeMunn, Frances Conroy, Nate Corddry, Brooklyn Proulx, Brian Anthony Wilson
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Julianne Moore – The Hunger Games, Crazy Stupid Love, The Kids Are All Right, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Children of Men, The Hours, Far from Heaven, The Shipping News, The Big Lebowski, Surviving Picasso, Benny & Joon
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers – The Mortal Instruments, Bend It Like Beckham, Titus, Velvet Goldmine
• Jeffrey DeMunn – Burn After Reading, The Mist, The Green Mile, The X Files Fight the Future, The Shawshank Redemption, Frances
• Frances Conroy – Joker, Six Feet Under, Broken Flowers, The Aviator, Sleepless in Seattle, The Scent of a Woman, Billy Bathgate
• Nate Corddry – The Circle, The Invention of Lying
• Brooklyn Proulx - Fireflies in the Garden, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Brokeback Mountain
• Why? Julianne Moore
• Seen:  9 October 2022      

       Forensic psychiatrist Cara Harding (Moore) is given an interesting patient by her psychiatrist father (DeMunn). The patient is David (Rhys Meyers), or is he Adam (Rhys Meyers)? Multiple personality or hoax? Psychology or possession? Science or religious hocus pocus?

       Directed by two Swedes, this film has very mixed reviews on IMDb. Some hate it, some quite like it. I’m on the quite-like-it team because it’s enigmatic and well-acted.

       Agreed, it does get weird and weirder but that kind of works for me. It’s a cool mix of believable and supernatural – but exciting! – nonsense. 

3 ½ * of 5