Almost living up to the hype, this bizarre love-child of Ingmar Bergman and David Lynch requires patience but pays off with some great nerve-jangling sequences in its finale. The clever use of limited locations, razor-sharp editing and superb control of the viewer by the camera makes this a very engaging - if not compulsively mesmerising - movie. Toni Collette is sublime as the grief-wrought mother, with very able support from Gabriel Byrne as her long-suffering husband and a very promising performance from Alex Wolff as the son. Yes, the ending does make the explanation a little too unnecessarily explicit, and at times the film is genuinely head-scratching, but overall it is very accomplished and enjoyable in an atmospherically puzzling way!
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