A matriarch’s failing mind brings darkness to the family home in Natalie Erika James’s unforgettably chilling debut featureResponses to cinema are, by nature, highly personal, with the very best movies tapping into wellsprings of emotion already deeply embedded in the viewer’s psyche.
This may go some way toward explaining why Relic, the extraordinary debut feature from writer-director Natalie Erika James, left me a total wreck – overwhelmed and in floods of tears.
Yet I’d wager that this spine-tingling, heartbreaking tale of a woman with Alzheimer’s becoming lost in the labyrinthine corridors of her mind, and her home, has a universal power that will resonate with anyone, regardless of personal experience.Emily Mortimer is Kay, the somewhat distanced daughter of Edna (Robyn Nevin), an elderly widow who lives alone in a remote house in Victoria, Australia.
Local police check in on Edna regularly but – to her
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