Little Joe (2019)
Directed by Jessica Hausner
Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.
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Emily Beecham’s Alice channels Mia Farrow’s seminal Rosemary’s Baby performance, with shades of Katharine Ross in The Stepford Wives , a more than capable woman undermined at every turn where she potentially challenges her proscribed roles as a mother or co-worker.
His “Berberian Sound Studio” (2012) was a loving tribute to the Italian giallo films of the 1970s, and he followed it with “The Duke of Burgundy” (2015), a lesbian romance that draped its powerful, unsettling emotions in the lusciously overripe style of 1960s European softcore.
Ahí está también el cine de Ben Wheatley, que puede jugar con esa misma mezcla de horror y ciencia ficción en High-Rise (Reino Unido, 2015) o llevar psicodelia a un thriller de época en blanco y negro con A Field in England (Reino Unido, 2013), e incluso el cine de proto horror fantasmal de Peter Strickland presente en la infalible In Fabric (Reino Unido, 2018).