FantasyYear2019Duration1h 29mIMDb4.9

Far from the Apple Tree

Name: Far from the Apple Tree
Genre: Fantasy
Released: 2019-05-04
Rating: 4.9

Fantasy

Judith, a struggling artist, gets her dream job of working for a renowned visual artist named Roberta Roslyn. While cataloging Roberta's work she is shocked to keep seeing a girl who closely resembles herself, she learns that this girl is actually her boss's missing daughter Maddy. As she investigates the mystery of just what could have happened to this girl, she starts to develop a new persona and it comes to a point where she must decide if she is to leave her job or continue and risk losing who she is.

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Grant McPhee

Director

Margaret Fraser

Dawn

Sorcha Groundsell

Judith

Victoria Liddelle

Roberta Roslyn

Scarlett Mack

Anne-Marie

Lynsey-Anne Moffat

Suzy

Adrienne-Marie Zitt

Dr. Penelope Sade

Ben Soper

Writer

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C A P A C H I N H O 🍫May 29, 2023

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Ahmed ElshaafiMay 23, 2023

This is directed by Grant McPhee, whose earlier 'Night Kaleidoscope' made such a virtue out of its very low budget. Although wildly different in mood and atmosphere, McPhee works his magic just as effectively for this story. The acting - for much of the time a two hander - is excellent. Sorcha Groundsell and Victoria Liddelle are wonderful as Judith and Roberta respectively. Supporting cast is equally fine. So good is this, it didn't dawn on me until writing this review that there isn't a single male character. Like 'Night Kaleidoscope', this film stretches the boundaries of 'horror' as we know it; in a recent interview McPhee has said how he fails to see the point of emulating the style of much bigger budgeted productions and instead prefers to extol the virtues of more modest resources - and he does this admirably. His films possess an intimate, claustrophobic often trippy sense of unease, even in a sprawling, beautiful location such as this. The much discussed Maddy is an interesting character, deliberately thinly sketched and therefore a mystery with dark undertones. To discuss this more would ruin the build up of what is a pretty slim, but compelling, storyline. I thoroughly enjoyed this vaguely Brontë -ish tale of melancholy and longing and eagerly await McPhee's next project - surely one of the most interesting and innovative directors of recent years. 8 out of 10.

Ramona🌼May 23, 2023

Beautiful, strange horror film concerning identity, art, mother-daughter relationships, psychedelia, old houses, video tape, C86 indie music and childhood trauma. So a teenage slasher splatterfest this ain't. Nor is it a conventional spooky thriller - its arty and blurry and shaky and distorted, and leaves things for the viewer to work out for themselves. If you are the kind of person who is sick of all these arty horrors coming out at the moment - you know, Ben Wheatley films, Berberian Sound Studio, Mandy - well - youre gonna hate this. Best stick to those old Freddie and Jason films. If, on the other hand, you like Suspiria, Repulsion , Performance, The Tenant, Jose Larraz, strange psychological horror and girls in 80s style hooped t shirts, then this is a good way of spending an evening Great dreamy score by Rose Mcdowell, ex Strawberry Switchblade/ Sorrow, which really gives this a lot of class.

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