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We don’t actually know much of anything, since the film eschews upfront explanation for the very occasional moments of exposition, from which we learn that there was a recent divorce and car accident. It’s unclear who, if anyone, was watching these kids while she was away, but she’s certainly on her own now. She sets down strict rules that put severe limits on the boys’ play time, explaining that she’ll need lots and lots of rest.
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Soon, their TV host mother (Susanna Wuest) arrives home from the hospital after some kind of surgery, her face wrapped in bandages and her personality just as bruised and unrecognizable.
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Then the movie zooms to the present day, where two young twin boys (played by Elias and Lukas Schwarz, whose characters are also called Elias and Lukas) play in vast green fields that surround a large, isolated house.Īlso Read: Let’s Talk About the Twist in M. That’s scary enough, and it’s compounded by a decidedly Aryan performance that could have been retrieved from Hitler’s personal video collection. We begin with vintage footage of a stiff blond family in traditional clothing (lederhosen for the boys, dresses for the girls) singing Brahms’ “Cradle Song,” a lullaby about the fact that you just may not wake up in the morning. Writer/directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s movie - in theaters now and recently selected as Austria’s Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film - is a slow, quiet, and increasingly chilling portrait of familial discord, childhood confusion, and the mind-altering power of grief.
I was convinced that perhaps there was an overpopulation problem in the European country, because the film seemed explicitly designed to discourage young people from ever wanting to have children. Almost immediately after the credits began rolling at the end of the new horror film Goodnight Mommy, I bolted the theater and began some intensive research about the demographics and politics of Austria, the country which delivered this jet-black nightmare of a horror movie.