Familiar psychological thriller tropes are infused with strong doses of social commentary in Lauren Fash's debut feature, which recently received its world premiere at the Frameline Film Festival.
Depicting a woman's efforts to find her missing child, Through the Glass Darkly occasionally gets lost in its own murkiness.
But the film ultimately proves an engrossing and decidedly offbeat 1990s-set suspenser, distinguished by Robyn Lively's superb performance in the lead role.
Lively, a veteran character actress whose credits go back several decades (she co-starred with Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid Part III), plays Charlie, whose young daughter Lily (Kinsley Isla Dillon) mysteriously disappeared a year earlier.
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