Review: Greta is not the tongue-in-cheek craziness that Isabelle Huppert fans are hoping for GlobeArts
turns from being a ho-hum stalker movie into full-blooded wack-a-doo thriller. And maybe that’s the point director Neil Jordan is trying to make: that everyday reality can often swerve in maniacal directions at a moment’s notice.
I’ll cop to chuckling at the scene toward the end where Huppert’s villain self-administers a painkiller to her severed finger in the most nonchalant of ways, but it’s unclear what Jordan actually wants from his character, or anyone else. For a film that is just over 90 minutes, the narrative stretches out for a deathly middle act, with Jordan even recruiting his olddoes contain the line, “This is the bed of lies!” So that’s something.
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