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| The Greenhouse |
Continuing my festival viewing are two films I saw back to back, the dramas
Jump, Darling and
The Greenhouse. The former features the last performance of the late Cloris Leachman, an actress I grew up watching on TV. Here she is unrecognisable as an elderly widow living alone in a big house who is thrown together with her tearaway grandson when he comes looking for a handout. Leachman is the highlight of the film which features glimpses of a powerful family drama and intriguing characters without really delivering. The ending is a shock for all the wrong reasons.
However, The Greenhouse really impressed with its odd mix of comedy and drama overlaid with sci-fi. A woman living with her mother in rural Australia discovers a portal to the past in a nearby greenhouse. The unusual family features two mothers and several adopted kids, all of whom bicker and have their own issues. As the daughter visits the greenhouse to witness times from her own life she bumps into the surviving mother. Spooky! Queer! Bonkers!
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