Echo Valley Review – Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney Suspense thriller extend the gullibility | Films

BRad Ingelby, maker of TV’s Mare of Easttown, has written a seductive tension thriller that directs Michael Pearce and produces Ridley Scott. And with the acting A-team of Julianne Moore And Sydney Sweeney in the protagonists, and rock-solid support from Fiona Shaw and Domhnall Gleeson, things look promising. But Sweeney is absent in the drama for too long to satisfy the central relationship satisfactorily. And after an intriguing opening, the complicated story not only jumps on the shark, but lies and lets the shark jump over it before the couple of them Charleston make their way over the rolling Pennsylvanic agricultural land where the film is supposed to be set.

Moore plays Kate, a lonely and unhappy grieving woman who trains horses and gives driving lessons on the farm that she now has dangerously. She is divorced from a testy and judgmental lawyer named Richard (Kyle Maclachlan), and the woman with whom she then married, died. She gets some company from her no-nonsense neighbor and friend Jessie (Shaw). But one light in her life is her beautiful, smart but deadly spoiled daughter Claire (Sweeney), who is a screw and drug user for those who have presented all her money to meaningless rehabilitation programs.

One night Claire returns in the life of Kate, chilling for help and Kate notices that she encounters a very scary dealer of her daughter’s knowledge. This is the horrible Jackie Lyman (Domhnall Gleeson). When it becomes very filthy and must be hidden from the police, Kate has to decide how far she goes to protect her daughter.

There are a number of pleasant and creepy things with a local lake that can be hired as a removal area for corpses-the film in my mind about films with more focused The deep end With Tilda Swinton, and classics such as John M Stahl’s let her go to heaven from 1945, or George Stevens is a place in the sun From 1951. But then the film is entangled in a number of very gullible things about what needs to be done if bodies have to be restored and the winding final is exaggerated and stupid. The estimated cast all does their utmost, but the total effect is frustratingly unbelievable.