BLOODY MARIE Review: A Brutally Reflective Dramatic Thriller That Doesn’t Kill The Buzz
Lennert Hillege and Guido van Driel‘s slow-burn character study in this year’s release, Bloody Marie, is undoubtedly carried by a mesmeric performance from actress Susanne Wolff. That her portrayal takes you away from the film’s underlying m.o. is worth noting to its credit, gazing as she follows a path of unraveling and often uncouth, cyclical descent into drunken stupor. It’s been six years since the success of her debut novel and her life in Amsterdam’s red-light district has now become an empty void, filled with various brands of alcohol and wine coolers in place of where her creativity used to be. And that’s pretty much the way it’s been and still is, going forward, whilst living hermitically in the confines of her drab, hushed and darkly lit apartment. Her own solitude notwithstanding, the only things that keep her company next to her dog, Lietze, is the quiet, nightmaring regret stemming […]
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