Cordelia (2019)

Following an incident in her past, Cordelia now lives with her twin sister, Caroline in their late father's basement flat.

Director:

Adrian Shergold

Writers:

Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Adrian Shergold

Stars:

Johnny Flynn, Michael Gambon, Joel Fry

Cast

Credited cast:
Johnny Flynn	...	Frank
Michael Gambon	...	Moses
Joel Fry	...	Matt
Catherine McCormack	...	Kate
Alun Armstrong	...	Roger
David Leon	...	Steven
Antonia Campbell-Hughes	...	Cordelia / Caroline
Hetty Baynes	...	Mrs Grotowski (as Hetty Baynes Russell)
Simona Zivkovska	...	Deputy Stage Manager
Kamil Lemieszewski	...	Knight
Anna Danshina	...	Natasha
Charlotte Randle	...	Regan
Tim Stern	...	Mr Grotowski
Raj Awasti	...	Cab Driver (as Rajiv Awasti)
Simon Strutt	...	Stage Hand / Crew

Storyline

Cordelia is a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a creepy London mansion flat occupied by her twin sister Caroline and Caroline's boyfriend Matt. When they leave her alone there Cordelia strikes up a friendship with Frank the charming, but strange and unreliable young man they can hear practicing his cello in the upstairs flat - a relationship which quickly becomes very disturbing.

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Plot Keywords:

basement | 

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Genres:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Adrian Shergold previously directed three episodes of Inspector Morse (1987): Inspector Morse: Second Time Around (1991), Inspector Morse: Greeks Bearing Gifts (1991), and Inspector Morse: Happy Families (1992).

User Reviews

Unsatisfying

There are movies that leave you with questions but if they're well done, you can still feel satisfied that you watched something worthwhile. Cordelia unfortunately , which is nicely acted and beautifully shot is not one of those movies. Loaded with atmosphere, we watch a story unravel before us and by the end have no real idea what was going on. It would seem the film makers felt maybe the performances were enough ? Well no they weren't. A little slow, things just happen , questions are posed and then it just ends. Strangely at one point in the film I said to myself, I hope this is not the last shot and amazingly it was. Certainly the movie seemed to be going in an interesting direction , maybe they felt it was better if the audience tacked on an ending in their own mind ? Do writers nowadays, not know how to end a movie ? This really is not worth seeing.

Details

Country:

UK

Release Date:

23 October 2020 (UK)

Also Known As:

Cordelia

Filming Locations:

Twickenham Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$2,085

Company Credits

Production Co:

StudioPOW, Twickenham Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1