REVIEW: Joanna Hogg's 'The Eternal Daughter' isn't called 'The Souvenir Part III' for good reason. But this movie, with its subtle, determined touches of grief, is clearly haunted by what came before.
The rest, as they say, is noise, eerie sounds that Julie spends much of the movie seeking out, desperate to understand the source — to understand if this place is as haunted as it seems. The drama ofis delightfully, purposefully thin. Laying it out won’t tell you much. Julie wanders about, taunted by the old hotel’s ambient commotion. Each day of their stay, she steals away to a room high in the building — the only place with a reliable WiFi signal — to try to get work done on her script.
How can a movie that seemingly does so little amount to so much? It’s because of the story lurking beyond it all — the psychological battle being waged, so quietly, under the surface of everything. The thinking seemingly goes that through this project, Julie will keep something of her bond to her mother alive, always. She thinks that through the process of performing this understanding, she will truly come to understand.
Hogg’s movie dramatizes is Julie’s labored recognition that, despite her sense of duty, her mother, however loving, will always be just a hair’s breadth out of reach. isn’t the kind of movie that encourages us to seek out the clues to what’s “really” going on. But it certainly plays with that idea. It inspires suspicion.
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