Skye is a down-on-her-luck author who had a popular success with one novel, but is now destitute. She meets a fan named Holly who appears obsessed with her and is willing to pay her for feedback on her own novel. Skye agrees to the deal and invites Holly into her home. What follows is a pair of dueling divas engaged in a dance of death.
The actress playing Skye is convincing as the author who is broke and desperate. In turn, the performer playing Holly conveys a sense of menace as the relationship unfolds and Holly begins to take over the home. The drama soon develops into a cat-and-mouse game. But it is not clear who is the cat and who is the mouse.
While the dramatic tension was good, and the film built to a successful ending with a good plot twist, the "One Year Later" denouement to the film was a disappointment. After the lengthy build-up, there could have been a better resolution with which to leave the viewer.
Plagiarizing Mark Twain, Sky inscribes her books with the epigram "The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives." That detail and others, were effective in delineating the two principal characters in this film. Another good quote was from Denis de Rougement's "Love in the Western World," which was how Skye's late husband Paul inscribed the book to her: "Happy love has no history." It turns out that the two dueling divas both had a "history" that they were concealing from each other. That secret history was the dramatic stuff of this film.
The actress playing Skye is convincing as the author who is broke and desperate. In turn, the performer playing Holly conveys a sense of menace as the relationship unfolds and Holly begins to take over the home. The drama soon develops into a cat-and-mouse game. But it is not clear who is the cat and who is the mouse.
While the dramatic tension was good, and the film built to a successful ending with a good plot twist, the "One Year Later" denouement to the film was a disappointment. After the lengthy build-up, there could have been a better resolution with which to leave the viewer.
Plagiarizing Mark Twain, Sky inscribes her books with the epigram "The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives." That detail and others, were effective in delineating the two principal characters in this film. Another good quote was from Denis de Rougement's "Love in the Western World," which was how Skye's late husband Paul inscribed the book to her: "Happy love has no history." It turns out that the two dueling divas both had a "history" that they were concealing from each other. That secret history was the dramatic stuff of this film.
