Low concept but incredibly elegant rehash of familiar territory.
From the very first moments one gets the feeling of a restrained, sinister story and it delivers. There's only so good this can be considering the story it's telling but the immense yet lonely manor house in the countryside makes a superb setting for this tale of a vulnerable person who doesn't whom she can trust and how much.
The handling of imagery and cinematography is masterful and hypnotic as we slow burn toward the darkness. At one point someone looks out the window at 90 degrees which doesn't work in context but that's just one error, it otherwise doesn't detract from the script but enriches it.
Stories like these, of obsessive traditional families can often go too far and just feel sensationalist. But every character here feels like a person and I admit I was questioning what I though was going on as we toe the line between alarm bells common paranoia.
I dare say one could say a couple of things about how we treat (pregnant) women and the mentally ill.
A creepy movie even if it isn't what you want to call a horror movie. I felt a little cheated by the end but the journey is admirable.
