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GOODNIGHT MOMMY Send This Review to a Friend
Unusually bizarre, “Goodnight Mommy,” shown at the 2015 New Directors/New Films series (See Search, then Special Reports) and now getting a commercial release, should appeal to those who like films tinged with horror, especially if there is a mysterious twist.
The film has been directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz of Austria, where the film takes place. The set-up involves nine-year-old twin boys, Elias and Lukas (Elias and Lucas Schwartz), and when we meet them, Elias keeps following Lukas around. Their mother, played by Susanne Wuest, has been gone, and when she returns from plastic surgery, her head is bound in bandages. The boys become fixated on the idea that she is not their real mother.
What follows is their effort to find out, including by brutal means. Suffice it to say that all is not what it seems, and by the time you are enlightened by the revealing twist at the end, one which I would not dare to disclose, you are either likely to enjoy what you learn and think the film is oh-so clever, or perhaps resent having been thoroughly manipulated. A Radius release. Posted September 9, 2015.
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