Review of Queen of Earth (2015) by Foxgrove — 12 Oct 2015
An exercise in pointlessness that has been described as acidly funny. Well, I think not! The incomprehensible story basically revolves around the toxic friendship between Elisabeth Moss and Katharine Waterston.
They appear to meet up every year at the latter’s secluded lake house to exchange barbs and vitriol, but all in the name of friendship. The tone of the film comes on like some British ‘B’ horror movie of the early seventies complete with heavy doom laden music, but in reality the only horror exuding from this mess is the unfortunate loss of 90 minutes of one’s life.
The story negates any interest in the performances and both actresses spout monologues which are sleep inducing. One scene of breakdown actually reminded me of a similar scene in Polanski’s The Tenant, a much better film, however.
If all this wasn’t bad enough, in addition the sound is appalling rendering many lines of dialogue, mercifully, inaudible. A total mess.
This review of Queen of Earth (2015) was written by Foxgrove on 12 Oct 2015.
Queen of Earth has generally received positive reviews.
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