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Sundance Review: Rebecca Hall & Tim Roth In ‘Resurrection’

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Resurrection is a tedious, one-note paranoiac thriller that never shifts gears to get out of its rut. With classy production values and a tony cast led by Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth, writer-director Andrew Semans’ first feature in a decade, since the similarly plotted Nancy, Please, grinds on trying to build suspense but doesn’t have much of a clue as to how to tease and tantalize an audience.

A significant theatrical release for this Sundance Premieres item seems most unlikely.As her character slides from fear and concern into all-out anger and legitimate paranoia, Hall is asked to carry the film almost entirely on her own, which would be beyond the talents of almost any performer given the virtual single-track emotional journey involved.

There are no sub-plots or side trips here, no nuances or, God forbid, dark humor, only an increasingly tiresome trip that never pays off for either the characters or the audience.Hall, whose mere presence confers a sense of confident intelligence upon any character she plays, is Margaret, a career woman with a daughter Abbie (Grace Kaufman) whose boyfriend is not treating her right and whose father is nowhere in sight.In fact, there’s scarcely a trace of either happiness or stability for anyone in this story.

Abbie suffers a bad cut on her leg and her mother insists she remain at home for her 18th birthday. During a business conference, Margaret panics, has a dreadful vision of a fetus in an oven and then has bad sex with her boyfriend.

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