Movie Review: Little Joe - This plant-based horror could use a little bit of pruning.
, as Alice’s colleagues fall one by one under the crimson plant’s sway and quietly devote themselves to its propogation, like genial, low-key pod persons.frightening or funky depends on where they’re sitting. Hausner and co-writer Géraldine Bajard very clearly don’t intend the film as an outright scary experience on the page.
. In a nifty little tweak of the botanical horror niche’s formula, the happier a character is, the more likely it is that they’ve been snared by Little Joe’s intoxicating aura, and honestly: Is thatso bad? Hausner flirts with the question, because of course a movie fueled by muted sentiment can’t come right out with big existential queries about the cost of happiness; that would betray its aesthetics.
Like happiness, success has a hidden, built-in cost. Whether or not that cost is too high is mostly left open-ended, save for a denouement reminding the audience of how easily free will can be stolen from us without our knowing it. Truth told, Hausner’s screenplay could have used a little pruning—she’s allotted herself too much time to tell the streamlined story she’s written for herself.
is a quirkily rattling movie, an off-kilter tonic during the year-end onslaught of movies proclaimed “important” by their studios, and what the film lacks in structure it makes up for in its eerie, cold singularity.
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