'Queen of Earth' is a decent indie movie. Nothing spectacular, but certainly worth a watch if you like slow-burning psychological dramas.
The movie is about Catherine (Elisabeth Moss), a woman on the brink of insanity, who spends a week at a lakeside vacation house with her estranged best friend Virginia (Katherine Waterston). Through flashbacks, we get to see the rather joyful person Catherine was merely a year ago, who stands in stark contrast to the basket case she has become after some unfortunate events in her life.
Elisabeth Moss stands out in the lead role. Her acting is very expressive. I also like that the director chose to shoot on 16 mm film. It gives the movie that certain ominous look of horror movies from days gone by, even though it is not a horror movie, and I wouldn't classify it as a thriller either.
'Queen of Earth' is a psychological drama in the vein of Roman Polanski's 'Repulsion' (1965) and 'Rosemary's Baby' (1968) or Sebastián Silva's more recent 'Magic Magic' (2013), albeit without the tangible "horror" elements of those movies and much more rooted in the ordinary world. This is a movie about the horrors of the everyday as it were.
The movie is about Catherine (Elisabeth Moss), a woman on the brink of insanity, who spends a week at a lakeside vacation house with her estranged best friend Virginia (Katherine Waterston). Through flashbacks, we get to see the rather joyful person Catherine was merely a year ago, who stands in stark contrast to the basket case she has become after some unfortunate events in her life.
Elisabeth Moss stands out in the lead role. Her acting is very expressive. I also like that the director chose to shoot on 16 mm film. It gives the movie that certain ominous look of horror movies from days gone by, even though it is not a horror movie, and I wouldn't classify it as a thriller either.
'Queen of Earth' is a psychological drama in the vein of Roman Polanski's 'Repulsion' (1965) and 'Rosemary's Baby' (1968) or Sebastián Silva's more recent 'Magic Magic' (2013), albeit without the tangible "horror" elements of those movies and much more rooted in the ordinary world. This is a movie about the horrors of the everyday as it were.