Réalisation:
Jon BellScénario:
Jon BellActeurs·trices:
Bella Heathcote, Toby Leonard Moore, Haiha Le, Tara Morice, Alexandra Jensen, Nicholas Cassim, Christian Byers, Luke Ford, Clarence Ryan, Henry Nixon, Shari Sebbens, Fiona Press (plus)Résumés(1)
A young Aboriginal couple bring home their second baby. What should be a joyous time takes a sinister turn as the mother starts seeing a malevolent spirit she is convinced is trying to take her baby. Adapted from his award-winning short and made with the producers of The Babadook and Talk to Me, Jon Bell’s debut feature draws from Indigenous lore for a thematically rich supernatural tale that quickly establishes the lurking menace of a child-stealing spirit. Its simmering suspense empathetically builds around the fragile psychology of a new mother, blurring the lines between exhaustion, paranoia, and postpartum depression. In exacerbating her isolation and hopelessness, Bell shrewdly accentuates traditional tools of oppression to reveal a darker allusion to Australia’s stolen generations — the tens of thousands of First Nations children forcibly removed from their families through the government’s assimilation policies — which the filmmaker calls a “massive wound in the psyche of Australia.” The Moogai bears its terrifying resonance out of sublimated trauma. (Sundance Film Festival)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Bella Heathcote
Australie
Meilleurs films :
Time Out (2011)
Commandos de l'ombre (2010)
My Wonder Women (2017)
Toby Leonard Moore
Meilleurs films :
John Wick (2014)
Mank (2020)
Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback (2007) (téléfilm)
Tara Morice
Australie
Meilleurs films :
Moulin Rouge ! (2001)
Candy (2006)
Ballroom dancing (1992)
Alexandra Jensen
Meilleurs films :
La Main (2023)
Nicholas Cassim
Meilleurs films :
Around the Block (2013)
Wish You Were Here (2012)
Christian Byers
Australie
Meilleurs films :
L'Arbre (2010)
Dance Academy: The Movie (2017)
December Boys (2007)
Luke Ford
Canada
Meilleurs films :
Red Dog (2011)
The Black Balloon (2008)
Charlie's Country (2013)
Clarence Ryan
Meilleurs films :
OtherLife (2017)
Blueback (2022)
Lapislazuli - Im Auge des Bären (2006)
Henry Nixon
Meilleurs films :
Underbelly Files: Infiltration (2011) (téléfilm)
The Black Balloon (2008)
Somersault (2004)
Shari Sebbens
Meilleurs films :
Les Saphirs (2012)
Teenage Kicks (2016)
Top End Wedding (2019)
Fiona Press
Meilleurs films :
Les Enfants de la révolution (1996)
Napoléon (1995)
The Pretend One (2017)
Steve Rodgers
Meilleurs films :
Le Secret des Finch (2015)
You Can't Stop the Murders (2003)
Goldstone (2016)