"It's a deeply pensive ghost story with a difference, following Jack (Dacre Montgomery), a man who learns about his mother, Elizabeth who abandoned him as a child via unconventional means. She speaks to him through her widowed wife, Jill (Vicky Krieps), after her death by suicide. And vice versa, she can also enter Jack and speak to Jill, creating a strange dynamic with three characters in two bodies."
"Jack and Jill meet early at Elizabeth's funeral, where Jack is asked how he knew her. He didn't, he replies: Jill invited him, though she has no recollection of doing so. This mystery might ordinarily be a MacGuffin: an event that spurs the plot into action. Except plot is something Van Grinsven (co-writing with Jory Anast) conditions us to forgo. The film, instead, centres on the internal and interpersonal bereavement, loss and abandonment."
Went Up the Hill presents a stiff, formally austere ghost story that privileges mood and psychological interiority over conventional plot momentum. The film follows Jack, who learns about his estranged mother Elizabeth through her widowed wife Jill after Elizabeth's suicide, while Elizabeth can also inhabit Jack to speak to Jill, producing a trio-in-two-bodies dynamic. The connection between Jack and Jill becomes physical and sensual, suggesting an Oedipal complexity while eschewing typical horror theatrics. Pristine formal control and measured direction create emotional distance, leaving characters enigmatic amid grief and abandonment.
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