Tag: The Little Stranger
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‘Normal People’ Trailer: The Director of ‘Room’ Heads to Hulu with a Forbidden Romance
Since directing Brie Larson to an Oscar win in 2015’s Room, Irish writer/director Lenny Abrahamson has been fairly quiet, directing only a couple episodes of a TV series called Chance and a single feature, the 2018 horror mystery The Little Stranger, which starred Domhnall Gleeson. Now Abrahamson has returned to his home country as one…
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Sarah Waters: ‘Some of my readers really did hate me. They felt let down’
As The Little Stranger opens in cinemas, the novelist shares the betrayal felt by some lesbian readers over her supernatural whodunnit – and why it is a perfect metaphor for Brexit Britain“There’s something in this house that hates us,” Caroline Ayres (Ruth Wilson) whispers towards the end of the new film adaptation of Sarah Waters’s…
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Ruth Wilson on ‘The Little Stranger’ and Returning to ‘Luther’ for Season 5
From director Lenny Abrahamson and screenwriter Lucinda Coxon, and adapted from the book of the same name by Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger tells the story of what happens when Dr. Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson) is called by the Ayres family to Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked, to attend to a patient. The house…
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‘The Little Stranger’ Is A Beautiful Gothic Drama That Is Uninterested In Horror Genre Conventions [Review]
Like Lenny Abrahamson‘s previous two movies, “Room” and “Frank,” “The Little Stranger” is a study in restraint. A bare bones description of the film – a doctor discovers strange occurrences at an English estate in the 1940s – makes it sound like high-brow horror, but the filmmaker has far more on his mind than simple…