I need to go to a haunted estate where a northern lass will be rude to me IMMEDIATELY

Joanna Hogg: “hmm if Tilda is going to play the two main roles herself…what if we put that extra money into the fog machine budget”

(all jokes aside this thing kinda quietly devastated me and I’ve been thinking about it for days)

surprisingly funny, great dog performance, tilda swinton, why haven’t i watched souvenir part 2 yet

You’d think it’d be challenging to shoot Tilda playing both mother & daughter, but they’re English so it’s not like they were gonna need to hug or anything.

~ Toronto International Film Festival #9 ~ 

So obvious that the entire time I was thinking “there is no way it’s just this” and then it literally was!!!!

AFI 2022: film #9

“the longer we’re here, the more it comes back”

nothing in the world more interesting or complex than the relationships we have with our mothers and all the muddled misremembering, overthinking and projecting we’ll do regarding them until the day we die. how silly!!!

i loved this movie half of it looked like landscape paintings for an episode of scooby doo

crazy to see her doing old Hogg (people having a bad time on vacation) with new Hogg (Julie Hart cinematic universe) simultaneously. lots to mull on here; had no clue what to expect. no complaints, though. there's a crash zoom on a dog :)

I feel bad because it's clear this is obviously intended to be quite personally meaningful... I’m just not really sure how the final result was functionally much different from your usual A24 spooky metaphor slog. Spent a good portion of this hoping it wasn’t just dully building to the most insanely obvious “oh… is that it?” reveal that it could be and then lol.

The parent trap.

Easily enjoyable and often amusing, but the double Tildas, the cunty front desk lady, and the haunted hotel atmosphere get increasingly hokey without ever landing a satisfying emotional punch. Possibly a great 40-minute short in here.