"Scored to the upbeat romantic sounds of Mickey & Sylvia's "Love is Strange, a brief collage from a ghostly POV hops and skips through time, as various women across the decades and centuries become enamored with some ghostly, unseen figure, but each romance soon curdles. Awkward silences abound, speaking volumes even in musical montage. These things happen, after all. Boy meets girl. They fall in love. They drift apart. It ends in bloodshed."
"Right from this opening sequence, Perkins sets up an intriguing dynamic, treading the delicate space between the unspoken tensions in most relationships, and the misogynistic violence that some men - too many men - respond to their partners with, creating a continuum of feminine trauma that ripples through time. This golden nugget of a theme informs the central plot set in modern day, in which metropolitan painter Liz (Tatiana Maslany) is whisked away"
Keeper is a 99-minute horror film from Osgood Perkins that mixes eerie atmosphere with fractured ideas about domestic relationships. The film opens with a montage of ghostly romances that sour into violence, establishing a throughline of feminine trauma across time. The central plot follows painter Liz (Tatiana Maslany) as her boyfriend Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland) brings her to a secluded family cabin. The movie evokes creepiness akin to Longlegs but suffers from a lack of focus and slow pacing that delays meaningful developments. The result is a movie with strong thematic sparks that ultimately feels overstretched and less impactful.
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