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User Reviews for: Strange Darling

CinemaSerf
/10  a month ago
A woman runs across a field, blood gushing from her ear. She's being chased by a man with an high powered rifle. Can she escape? Well across the next ninety minutes, and via six chapters and an epilogue, we are told the story of just how we got here. Except, the episodes are not shown to us in numerical order and this isn't the end. It's not really the beginning of the end, but maybe the end of the beginning? Willa Fitzgerald looks terrified, Kyle Gallner looks menacing - but as this cat and mouse game progresses our expectations of the narrative are well and truly challenged, and that proves especially perilous for just about everyone that either of these two characters meet as plenty of uses for handcuffs are demonstrated - none of which were probably as advertised on the box! It doesn't actually take you too long to figure out what is happening, especially as the opening slide reveals it's historical source and so does impact on the jeopardy a little. That said, though, there's a gently seedy eroticism running through this drama and there's also quite an entertaining chemistry between the two characters that, like quite a lot of this film, invites us to reconsider established sexual stereotyping. It's violent at times, bloody too - but in the vein of Hammer rather than Tarantino and it's tongue is in it's cheek for a fair chunk as it evolves. If you get a chance to see in the cinema, the give it a go - it almost certainly won't pan out as you'd expect. (All shot on 35mm, apparently, but I'm not too sure I noticed!)
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