Hereditary

 

Hereditary 2018

• Director: Ari Aster
• Seen by the director: Midsommar
• Based on book: no
• Cast: Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Toni Collette – Knives Out, Imperium, A Long Way Down, Enough Said, Mental, Fright Night, The Dead Girl, Night Listener, Little Miss Sunshine, In Her Shoes, The Hours, About a Boy, Hotel Splendide, Sixth Sense, Velvet Goldmine, Muriel’s Wedding
• Gabriel Byrne – Quirke, Emotional Arithmetic, Jindabyne, Wah-Wah, Smilla’s Sense of Snow Dead Man, The Usual Suspects, Little Women, Prince of Jutland, Miller’s Crossing, Gothic, Excalibur
• Ann Dowd – Leftovers
• Why? Collette and Byrne
• Seen: Once before. Now 30 April 2021      

       A death in the family weighs heavily on Annie (Collette), her husband Steve (Byrne) and their children Peter (Wolff) and Charlie (Shapiro). Then even more tragedy strikes.

       It’s creepy and it gets creepier. It’s slow, atmospheric and heavy. The acting is very good and the filming artistic. But oh, the grimness. Collette is outstanding but the silly ending pulls it down a notch.      

3 ½ * of 5