And perhaps, there is more history there, chipping away at Frederic’s already burdened conscience.Īll hell breaks loose (though, quietly), when an enigmatic young man named Aaron (superbly played by O’Brien himself) turns up at Frederic and Ethel’s doorstep, groaning about his injured foot. She is perhaps the mother of the late child. Through her shivering conversations with the couple, we get a little backstory about these characters. Immediately, she feels straight out of a Mike Leigh film-call her Lesley Manville’s Mary in “ Another Year” if you will-a struggling soul that compensates for her sense of powerlessness by overtalking, by overexplaining herself. The film’s best scene arrives early when Doris ( Kate Corbett, stealing the film through her brief scenes) from their remote town makes an unannounced appearance at the couple’s home. Still, Frederic and his wife Ethel ( Mimi Kuzyk, powerful) try to get by, holding onto what little comfort that they may have. The story at the center earns that disquieting temperament as we begin following Frederic ( Henry Czerny of “ Mission: Impossible,” giving a subtle performance seeped in sorrow), an ex-priest now shattered by grief and misgivings about his faith upon losing his adopted daughter to a mysterious tragedy. It would perhaps be more appropriate to call it an angst-ridden mood piece, aided and amplified by Andrew Staniland’s imposing score of heavy strings and alarming crescendos. This is a frightening film, but not in the traditional sense.
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