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Opening night premiere!
Melbourne Premiere of the new film by Jonathan Glazer (
Sexy Beast) starring Nicole Kidman & Lauren Bacall. Anna (Nicole Kidman), a brittle and uncommonly self-possessed widow, accepts a marriage proposal after years of subdued grief and resignation.
At dinner with her fiancé and her family, a solemn young boy inveigles his way into the apartment and insists on speaking with her. His revelation is initially dismissed as preposterous, but it slowly begins to unravel Anna's composure.
The style and skilfully attenuated tone of Glazer's atmospheric mystery drama shares with Polanski's
Rosemary's Baby the American Gothic locale of an otherworldly Manhattan that seems to predispose its residents to preternatural sensitivities.
"A meditation on love, loss and mortality, buttressed by exceptional performances" David di Certo,
Catholic News
