“We knew that they knew everything about us, and that we couldn’t fathom them at all.”
Sophia Coppola‘s first film, the title gives away the big plot point, and so fills the entire movie with a sense of dread and impending doom that’s hard to shake; it’s a haunting film that tries to deal with grief and absence, and really makes you feel the impotence in understanding someone else’s depression and the confusion surrounding a suicide — great all round but with a beautifully subtle performance by James Woods.
★★★★✩