The plot is too thin. Nothing, literally nothing happens until a little over half of the movie (Kaja's appearance), and after those five minutes, nothing happens until the end. So, if you wanted to tell the whole story, it would take you 15 seconds in words or approximately three minutes in movie scenes. Everything else is just stealing time (which, here, is by the way extended in hours - it's so slow that not only does the movie not catch your attention, it very soon becomes unbeareably boring - half an hour into the movie, I was considering should I watch until the end or not). The photography is nice, the movie is well shot, the costumes are looking good, but what good is that if the plot doesn't make any sense whatsoever? The time connection to today (cellphones) is completely pointless. We start wondering - who is the uncle? What time does he come from? But there never are any new information to support the imagination. The actors are really good, but that's what they are - four really good actors given some really basic situations they had to play. The acting style reminds me a bit of Stoker and it's sometnihg we've already seen a long time ago. I like bizarre movies, but the whole bizarre world attempt here fails because it lacks some bizarre world solutions - it's just a thin story loop leading nowhere. I would far rather watch Lathimos - yes, it's bizarre, it's cruel, it's so over the top, but it has something to be over the top of. A story, to begin with.
Review of Stric
