Nicole doesn’t want Suzanne to go near the barn. It could be dangerous, she says. But some compulsion draws Suzanne towards the rickety old building again and again.
Turkish-Canadian director Onur Karaman is known for his rather spare and downbeat approach to cinema. In this, his first English language film, his has stripped away everything but the essentials. It’s clear early on that this replicates, at least to some degree, the experience of his central character. Suzanne (Stephanie Breton) is amnesiac and confused. Is she suffering from dementia? Is she drugged? How much of what we see through her eyes is real, how much a product of dreaming? For most of the running time we don’t know, and neither does she. All she knows is that her husband Normand (Alexandre Dubois) is missing, and she has to find out what was happened to him.
Supervising Suzanne’s...
Turkish-Canadian director Onur Karaman is known for his rather spare and downbeat approach to cinema. In this, his first English language film, his has stripped away everything but the essentials. It’s clear early on that this replicates, at least to some degree, the experience of his central character. Suzanne (Stephanie Breton) is amnesiac and confused. Is she suffering from dementia? Is she drugged? How much of what we see through her eyes is real, how much a product of dreaming? For most of the running time we don’t know, and neither does she. All she knows is that her husband Normand (Alexandre Dubois) is missing, and she has to find out what was happened to him.
Supervising Suzanne’s...
- 7/22/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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