A mother should look out for her sons.
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.
- 6.7
- 2015
- Released
- 1h 40m
Elias Schwarz
Elias
Lukas Schwarz
Lukas
Susanne Wuest
Mother
Hans Escher
PriestElfriede Schatz
Red Cross Collector #1Karl Purker
Red Cross Collector #2Georg Deliovsky
Pizza SupplierChristian Steindl
MesnerChristian Schatz
FarmerErwin Schmalzbauer
Accordion God
Michael Ande
Werner von Trapp
Ruth Leuwerik
Baronin von Trapp
Released
de
$2,193,474.00
- #mask
- #fire
- #lake
- #countryside
- #cat
- #austria
- #punishment
- #arson
- #priest
- #torture
- #bathtub
- #twins
- #divorce
- #mental illness
- #dream sequence
- #doppelgänger
- #graveyard
- #woman director
- #mother son relationship
- #cosmetic surgery
- #animal mask
- #brother brother relationship
Reviews
Less than I hoped it would be. I went into this film spoiler free, knowing nothing more than the tag line. While it was well acted and well paced for the most part, the twist was heavy handed and obvious from early on. Maybe I would have liked this film more if there was more subtlety to it. A good film should still entertain if you know the twist or not, and for me, guessing it so early jus
> If a mother isn't being one, her own child would doubt her. The Austrian thriller-drama, is going to contend with another nearly 100 movies from the different countries for the upcoming (2016) American Academy Awards. I hope it will make into the final shortlist and my wishes to the cast and the crew. A minimal cast movie, set in an isolated lake house where the 9 years old twin boys and thei