Even the cast appear to be nodding off from boredom in this dated drama about postnatal psychosis and dark secrets
This dull
British movie really takes the psychological out of psychological thriller – a drama in which characters are driven to emotional
BREAKING point by trauma and grief yet look as if they’re nodding off from the boredom of it all.
The director is Paula van der Oest, working with a script adapted from Lisa St Aubin de Terán’s 1986 novel. It’s clunky and dated, and what’s really frustrating is that this is a female-driven film with a woman at its centre – a young mother suffering from postnatal psychosis – yet the whole thing is told from the perspective of a man: her husband.