The lodge Release Date: January 25th, 2020
Premise: A soon-to-be-stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé’s two children at a remote holiday village. Similarly as relations at last defrost between the trio, strange and frightening events threaten to summon psychological demons from her strict religious childhood.
The lodge story:
There are only four characters in The Lodge, and the whole film has been staged as if these four are the only people currently existing on earth. Most of it is confined to one remote location which at times feels like a polar desert. It is essentially a chamber drama. The central conflict comes from the idea of two kids having to deal with their father’s (Richard Armitage) new girlfriend Grace (Riley Keough) after their mother’s (Alicia Silverstone) suicide. The latter was driven to her fate by her husband’s need to speed up divorce proceedings so that he can speed things up with Grace.
Alicia gets a lot of heavy lifting done despite her brief appearance. There is an odd calmness in her disposition in the moments leading up to her death which is really discomforting. The kids don’t take it lightly when their father suggests that they stay with Grace in the eponymous lodge.When Grace enters the picture, she becomes that evil stepmother who ruined the family. The kids’ cold reception, coupled with her unpredictable nature, is what generates most of the tension. That’s the thing both the women in the film share you can’t tell what they’re thinking. Remember Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl? That’s what I’m talking about. Grace is constantly tormented by her dark past. Her unsettling memories manifest themselves in weird ways.
There is a creepy painting that makes her uncomfortable more than once. A reference to a satanic cult, and how only one girl Grace survived it, takes the film in surreal directions. At one point, one of the characters wonders if they’re dead.
MY RATING 6.5/10
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