Greta is a lonely old woman, and Frances is a young woman that lost her mother a year ago. The younger one has problems with her father because he's moved on with his life after his wife's death, and she stills struggling to accept both situations.
For that reason, Frances now lives with her wealthy friend, and one day a purse crosses her path. She looks after the owner, and suddenly a simple visit to deliver the forgotten purse to the unknown Greta Hildeg becomes what she believed to be an honest friendship.
Despite some obvious cliches of the genre, the movie isn't that bad as some user's review might say.
The good thing about the screenplay is that even if its slow pace may not please some people, on the other hand the truth doesn't take too long to unfold and so some plot twists. There are some subplot holes that may come to surface for those ones who cares too much about everything, but the tension between the two main characters is what really holds attention and also some classic techniques Neil Jordan uses to construct the thrilling atmosphere.
For sure they try to keep Greta's past as mysterious as it should and that's what is probably the most frustrating thing about the screenplay because when the final credits appears her truth is still blurry and never explained to fulfill psychological gaps, which makes the psychological side of this thriller falls apart becoming an ordinary genre movie.
Isabelle Hupert and Cloe Grace deliver solid performances, and is finally good to see a movie that a victim isn't treated as an insane person that is only imagining things while the psychopath one is never put on doubt until the last minute. I like that.
Until second half of the movie Frances does right decisions, but after that writers puts her on absurd situations to pull the plot back and force conflicts to a higher level leading to the final clash they so desperate want people to expect. Yeah, Neil Jordan and Ray Right should have done differently.
But anyway, the movie can be entertaining and surprisingly for some moments and better than a lot of titles out there that tries the same awfully.
For that reason, Frances now lives with her wealthy friend, and one day a purse crosses her path. She looks after the owner, and suddenly a simple visit to deliver the forgotten purse to the unknown Greta Hildeg becomes what she believed to be an honest friendship.
Despite some obvious cliches of the genre, the movie isn't that bad as some user's review might say.
The good thing about the screenplay is that even if its slow pace may not please some people, on the other hand the truth doesn't take too long to unfold and so some plot twists. There are some subplot holes that may come to surface for those ones who cares too much about everything, but the tension between the two main characters is what really holds attention and also some classic techniques Neil Jordan uses to construct the thrilling atmosphere.
For sure they try to keep Greta's past as mysterious as it should and that's what is probably the most frustrating thing about the screenplay because when the final credits appears her truth is still blurry and never explained to fulfill psychological gaps, which makes the psychological side of this thriller falls apart becoming an ordinary genre movie.
Isabelle Hupert and Cloe Grace deliver solid performances, and is finally good to see a movie that a victim isn't treated as an insane person that is only imagining things while the psychopath one is never put on doubt until the last minute. I like that.
Until second half of the movie Frances does right decisions, but after that writers puts her on absurd situations to pull the plot back and force conflicts to a higher level leading to the final clash they so desperate want people to expect. Yeah, Neil Jordan and Ray Right should have done differently.
But anyway, the movie can be entertaining and surprisingly for some moments and better than a lot of titles out there that tries the same awfully.