[FILM]
MEN
Harper (Jessie Buckley) watches her back.
★★★ OUT NOW CERT 15 / 100 MINS
DIRECTOR Alex Garland
CAST Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu
PLOT After her husband dies, Harper (Buckley) goes on a rural getaway to try and heal. Once there, she runs into several men (all played by Kinnear), who start acting strangely around her.
Intensely creepy goings-on ensue.
WITH ALEX GARLAND movies, generally, you should expect the unexpected. A body, frozen in death, made beautiful by delicate climbing plants. Human cries for help in the mouth of a skeletal bear. A shaven-headed Oscar Isaac discodancing. With Men, the inimitable writer and director moves away from the science-fiction DNA of previous projects — but in digging into the fresh ground of full-on folk horror, he also delivers a film somewhat more predictable, if still compelling, than we’ve seen from him before.