MEN
Film details
| Film Title | MEN |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 100mins |
| Year | 2022 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Director | Alex Garland |
| Actors | Paapa Essiedu, Gayle Rankin, Sarah Twomey |
| Language | English |
| Showings |
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper (Jessie Buckley) retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears in visionary filmmaker Alex Garland’s (Ex Machina, Annihilation) feverish, shape-shifting new horror film.
Men is audacious, terrifying, and annoyingly oblique. From its declarative title to the brilliant use of Rory Kinnear … Men wants you to think about gender and trauma, but the movie itself is a funhouse mirror reflecting back your own biases…
★★★★
One should approach “Men” as if it were modal jazz: it isn’t so much about a hummable melody as it is about tone, color, mood, and the thrill of unexpected exploration within a set framework.
★★★★★
Audiences are all but guaranteed to leave this folk-horror bizart-house offering feeling disturbed, even if no two viewers can agree on what bothered them about it.
★★★★
