The Eclipse
Crit
Half of this film is a perfectly predictable love triangle: Good Man (Ciarán Hinds), Good Woman (Iben Hjejle), and Asshole She's Inexplicably Involved with (Aidan Quinn); quadrangle if you include Good Man's Late, Much-Lamented Wife.
The uninteresting half, though, is necessary to the requirements of the excellent half: the creepy, weird, unpredictable, and genuinely frightening ghost story. Still, you wish Quinn's bestselling American novelist weren't drawn quite so simplistically; that wasn't necessary. Gorgeous location shooting in coastal Cobh, County Cork.
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Well, shoot. How did I miss this? Sounds kind of cool...
Price you pay for living in a cinematic backwater, I guess. Somehow, I'm thinking it's probably playing At A Theater Near You(!)
Hey, didja see that the inevitable Hollywood remake of Let the Right One In (you saw that, right? omigod, if you didn't, move to top of Netflix queue yesterday, yo!) is coming, as Let Me In? But there are actually reasons to believe it might not, you should pardon the expression, suck: Chloe Moretz as the girl (wonderful in (500) Days of Summer), Richards Jenkins as her father, and, as the boy, someone I've never heard of, rather than some teen heartthrob, Kodi Smit-McPhee. Dir. by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield). Fingers crossed.
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