Anne (2018)
6/10
Either a brilliant portrayal of loneliness a mind quietly gone mad or a load of silly twaddle with an old lady and her dolls
24 March 2019
Well this was certainly a weird one! Very strange and unsettling, all atmosphere and virtually no real content or story, just an obviously insane old lady named Anne living her dreary day to day existence in her lonely old house in the presence of her collection of creepy dolls which she alternately dotes on and is cruel to, while growing steadily worse in her mental state until she needs a live-in nurse who seems to have a sinister agenda of her own... I really didn't get this, it felt like it could have been either really sad and tragic or really scary and psychologically disturbing if they had tweaked the plot a little, it feels like it's going somewhere but it doesn't, and the abrupt ending which comes out of nowhere is highly unsatisfying and aggravating, it really lost me once the nurse arrived and the old lady died and she didn't bother to tell the son about it and then she was in cahoots with the other son to get the house or something, whaaaat?? Lol it's like thin gruel, there's nothing you can really take from it, they should have just gone for the gusto and had the dolls come to life and eat the old lady after she buried the one doll that she decided she didn't like, at least that would have been something! Slightly enjoyable as a very weird meditative 'art' piece on loneliness and uh..how dolls can be seriously creepy if you get a lot of them together in one place, about the best thing about it is some very nice and creepy footage with said dolls. Too bad really, there was faint potential for some real horror somewhere, and I have actually seen a lot worse. Very odd, left me frowning and befuddled, it was a thing I watched though, that much I can say for sure! X
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