Relic

 

Relic 2020

• Director: Natalie Erica James
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Robyn Nevin, Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Robyn Nevin – Top of the Lake, Matrix etc, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
• Emily Mortimer – The Bookshop, The Party, Hugo, Shutter Island, Lars and the Real Girl, Dear Frankie, Bright Young Things, Young Adam, The 51^st State, The Kid, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Notting Hill, Elizabeth
• Bella Heathcote – Dark Shadows
• Why? The cast and good reviews
• Seen:  19 December 2023                 

        When Edna (Nevin) goes missing her daughter Kay (Mortimer) and granddaughter Sam (Heathcote) come to her house near Melbourne to investigate. She does return in a few days but won’t tell them where she has been. Kate believes it’s her increasing dementia but Edna seems more and more frightened and strange noises are heard in the house and the whole film collapses into weirdness.

       But is it good weirdness or bad weirdness? I don’t know. I’ll have to see it again in a year or so.

 Maybe 2*, maybe 4*of 5