Movie Review: STRANGE DARLING – Assignment X

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN / Workers Author

Posted: August twenty third, 2024 / 02:03 AM

Score: R
Stars: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Madisen Beatty, Bianca Santos, Steven Michael Quezada, Ed Begley Jr., Barbara Hershey
Author: JT Mollner
Director: JT Mollner
Distributor: Magenta Gentle Studios/Miramax
Launch Date: August 23, 2024

The right way to assessment STRANGE DARLING with out spoilers? It appears honest sufficient to incorporate the movie’s opening, which informs us that it’s shot in 35mm (one thing of a rarity as of late). This enables cinematographer Giovanni Ribisi (additionally one in every of STRANGE DARLING’s producers) to play with crisp black-and-white, saturated colours and even over-saturation, relying on the temper of the sequence.

On the black-and-white begin, we see a person (Kyle Gallner) smoking a cigarette in a automotive. The lady (Willa Fitzgerald) with him asks if he’s a serial killer.

Simultaneous narration (offered by Jason Patric) and an onscreen crawl inform us that, between 2018 and 2020, probably the most prolific and distinctive serial killer of the twenty-first century went on a multi-state spree that led to Oregon. We’re informed that this can be a dramatization of the ultimate identified killings drawn from police reviews, eyewitness accounts, and many others. (For what it’s price, STRANGE DARLING just isn’t based mostly on a real story; this looks as if a slight nod to the opening of THE TEXXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE.)

Then we see the girl operating for her life, because the palette modifications from black-and-white to sensible shade. The look right here and the temper all through have a ‘70s indie vibe, as do the screen-covering measurement of the preliminary credit.

STRANGE DARLING’s title comes with a subtitle: “A thriller in 6 chapters.” We are going to duly be given what’s occurring, the way it got here to occur, and what occurred afterwards.

Even to debate STRANGE DARLING’s meta facets looks as if a danger of an excessive amount of info. Director/author JT Mollner manages to pack loads of actual surprises into the proceedings, even for viewers who might guess one key component earlier than it’s disclosed. The movie just isn’t a gore-fest, however the incidents of violence pack a visceral punch. It was additionally shot in Oregon, so it has the advantage of visible verisimilitude.

Fitzgerald and Gallner each show huge vary and conviction. Ed Begley Jr., Barbara Hershey, Steven Michael Quezada and Madisen Beaty are extraordinarily well-cast in smaller roles.

There are issues about STRANGE DARLING that not everybody will love. The prioritizing of the sudden implies that sure different conventional issues don’t get the type of care which may make this a extra immersive expertise.

Nonetheless, we would like the solutions to all of the questions STRANGE DARLING poses throughout. It holds our consideration from begin to end.

This reviewer sincerely hopes that the above conveys some sense of what STRANGE DARLING is like, with out disclosing extra of its plot than is detectable at its starting.

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