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Tuesday 29 April 2014

Cold Heaven (1991)

Dir. Nicolas Roeg is skilled at creating expectation and unease, but his films can be challenging. Cold Heaven ticks those boxes.
At the centre of events is a woman struggling with bereavement and a guilty conscience. It’s a downbeat journey that offers little in the way of space to breathe for a very long time. It’s one of the many films that I can see the merits of but have no desire to ever revisit. Someone who holds, or once held, religious beliefs may feel differently about developments and will surely be better equipped to sympathise with the protagonist.
The cover art is slightly misleading; there are some creepy moments but don't expect the kind of horror that it implies.

2½ haunted thoughts out of 5

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