It is an event-movie detonation, a phantasmagorical horror and black-comic nightmare that jams the narcosis needle right into your abdomen. But it is as deadpan comedy that this film can be understood: a macabre spectacle of revulsion, a veritable agape of chaos. And yet Jennifer is doomed to be a kind of B-list Sofia Tolstoy, harassed by her husband’s creepy acolytes whom he indulges. Then the man’s wife shows up – Michelle Pfeiffer – who is casually disrespectful of Lawrence’s position as mistress of the house. screened at the Venice film festival; it is released on 14 September in Australia and 15 September in the US and UK.

Source: The Guardian September 05, 2017 21:33 UTC