150 Words About . . .RESURRECTION (2022)

By James Newman

If you trust the trailer, Resurrection offers a story you’ve seen before.  Margaret (the always-amazing Rebecca Hall) encounters an old flame (Tim Roth, evil-as-evil-can-be here without ever raising his voice) at a work conference.  Their relationship was once a nightmare of manipulation and gaslighting, and her ex is back for round two.

…but in the final act, the film morphs into something completely different from the paint-by-numbers psycho-thriller you expected.  It’s as if David Lynch was hired to direct an unfinished Hitchcock film and the pages of the script got swapped with those of an extreme French horror flick like Inside. 

I’m still not sure if I liked it or not.  I think it’s a brilliant allegory of abuse and letting go of past regrets.  At the same time, I don’t have a clue.  Smarter folks than yours truly, feel free to reach out and explain it all to me.