Regie:
Jon BellScenario:
Jon BellActeurs:
Bella Heathcote, Toby Leonard Moore, Haiha Le, Tara Morice, Alexandra Jensen, Nicholas Cassim, Christian Byers, Luke Ford, Clarence Ryan, Henry Nixon, Shari Sebbens, Fiona Press, Steve Rodgers (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
A young Aboriginal couple bring home their second baby. What should be a joyous time takes a sinister turn as the mother starts seeing a malevolent spirit she is convinced is trying to take her baby. Adapted from his award-winning short and made with the producers of The Babadook and Talk to Me, Jon Bell’s debut feature draws from Indigenous lore for a thematically rich supernatural tale that quickly establishes the lurking menace of a child-stealing spirit. Its simmering suspense empathetically builds around the fragile psychology of a new mother, blurring the lines between exhaustion, paranoia, and postpartum depression. In exacerbating her isolation and hopelessness, Bell shrewdly accentuates traditional tools of oppression to reveal a darker allusion to Australia’s stolen generations — the tens of thousands of First Nations children forcibly removed from their families through the government’s assimilation policies — which the filmmaker calls a “massive wound in the psyche of Australia.” The Moogai bears its terrifying resonance out of sublimated trauma. (Sundance Film Festival)
(meer)Acteurs
Bella Heathcote
Australië
Beste films:
In Time (2011)
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017)
Toby Leonard Moore
Beste films:
John Wick (2014)
Mank (2020)
Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback (2007) (Tv-film)
Tara Morice
Australië
Beste films:
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Candy (2006)
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Alexandra Jensen
Beste films:
Talk to Me (2023)
Nicholas Cassim
Beste films:
Around the Block (2013)
Wish You Were Here (2012)
Christian Byers
Australië
Beste films:
The Tree (2010)
Dance Academy: de film (2017)
December Boys (2007)
Luke Ford
Canada
Beste films:
Red Dog (2011)
The Black Balloon (2008)
Charlie's Country (2013)
Clarence Ryan
Beste films:
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
OtherLife (2017)
Blueback (2022)
Henry Nixon
Beste films:
Underbelly Files: Infiltration (2011) (Tv-film)
The Black Balloon (2008)
Somersault (2004)
Shari Sebbens
Beste films:
The Sapphires (2012)
Teenage Kicks (2016)
Top End Wedding (2019)
Fiona Press
Beste films:
Children of the Revolution (1996)
Napoleon (1995)
The Pretend One (2017)
Steve Rodgers
Beste films:
The Daughter (2015)
You Can't Stop the Murders (2003)
Goldstone (2016)