Greta (2018)
Thriller/suspense/film noir
Rating: 4/5 - very good lots to enjoy
Director: Neil Jordan. (15)
Synopsis
Frances (Chloe Grace Moretz) is young, new to living in New York City and green around the gills. Her beloved mother died a year ago so she moves in with her rich, hip friend Erica (Maika Monroe), finds herself a job waiting on tables and starts to live again after mourning.
One day she notices someone has left their handbag on the subway. In a random act of kindness, she returns it to the grateful owner. Greta (Isabelle Huppert) is a widowed, middle-aged French woman. Cultured and stylish she is lonely, her daughter having moved to Paris many months before. Frances, in need of a mother-figure, strikes up a friendship with Greta that swiftly becomes intense and needy, on both sides.
Cooking dinner with Greta, Frances discovers a cupboard full of handbags similar to the one she returned. Sensing something is very wrong, she makes her exit, but Greta does not tolerate her ‘daughter’ leaving in such a way and a psychological game of matrilineal cat and mouse ensues.
Review by @Reelreviewer
Esteemed French actress Huppert is a movie marvel.
Having made her movie debut in a tin role in 1972's XXXX, she has starred in a total of 122 films, providing either a physical or vocal presence - most times both (although three of those are yet to be released).
This is a phenomenal output that equates to her featuring in roughly two movies at least per year. And that's not including her substantial stage and TV work. So it's fair to say that with Huppert a cinema audience gets its money's worth - longevity, quality, consistency.
Ooh la la, quelle une femme!
She has always essayed a great female nutter, whether sexually frigid or expressive and her Greta helps the actress evolve this type. Maternal, giving, respectful, needy, obsessive, dangerous, liable to drug you and lock you up in a travel trunk.
As her daughterly nemesis - and someone equally needy - Chloe Grace Moretz spins her usual filmic nebulousness into movie gold, someone who desperately seeks out and embraces a weird attachment, essentially to aid her own mental health.
It's a great pairing but could our Greta have pushed herself - and us - even further?
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Cast & credits
Director: Neil Jordan. 1hr 38mins/98mins. Sidney Kimmel Entertainment/Lawrence Bender/Little Wave Productions. (15)
Producers: Lawrence Bender, James Flynn, Sidney Kimmel, John Penotti.
Writer: Neil Jordan, Ray Wright.
Camera: Seamus McGarvey.
Music: Javier Navarrete.
Sets: Anna Rackard.
Isabelle Huppert, Chloe Grace Moretz, Stephen Rea, Maikla Monroe, Colm Feore, Zawe Ashton, Thaddeus Daniels, Raven Dauda.
Image: Universal International Pictures
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