The Nest (2020)

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Movie
Original title The Nest
Country of production United Kingdom , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2020
length 107 minutes
Rod
Director Sean Durkin
script Sean Durkin
production Amy Jackson ,
Andrew Lowe ,
Christina Piovesan ,
Derrin Schlesinger
camera Mátyás Erdély
cut Matthew Hannam
occupation

The Nest is a film drama directed by Sean Durkin that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020 and is due to be released in the United States on September 18, 2020. In the film, Jude Law and Carrie Coon play a married couple who have become increasingly estranged after moving from the USA to England.

action

Rory O'Hara has worked as a commodities broker his life and made modest prosperity through his job in finance where he is entrusted with risk and reward forecasting. The native Brit once moved to the United States with his wife Allison, stepdaughter Sam and their son Ben so that they could be closer to Allison's family. You live in the suburbs of New York.

Now, in the mid-1980s, he wants to go back to England, even if his wife is a little unsure about this, as the children have had to go through a few moves in recent years. The family moves into a huge mansion there, which they actually cannot afford. The huge building in Surrey is full of secret doors, dark chambers and creaky stairs.

While Rory continues to work on his numbers and reports, Allison prefers to get his hands dirty and take care of the stable on their property. However, Rory's relentless ambition blinds him to what his family really needs. He quickly moves away from his wife Allison and their two children, who have their own problems in this new environment.

production

Jude Law plays Rory, Carrie Coon his wife Allison Jude Law plays Rory, Carrie Coon his wife Allison
Jude Law plays Rory, Carrie Coon his wife Allison

Directed by Sean Durkin , who also wrote the script. It is his second film as a director after Martha Marcy May Marlene , in which he describes the traumatic consequences of living in and leaving a sect. Durkin, who was born in Canada in the early 1980s before moving to the UK and then New York, used elements from his youth in the plot of The Nest .

Jude Law and Carrie Coon star in the leading roles of the married couple Rory and Allison . In supporting roles, Charlie Shotwell can be seen as their son Benjamin briefly Ben and Oona Roche in the role of Rory's stepdaughter Samantha briefly Sam.

Filming began in September 2018 and took place on a total of 35 days. After spending a week in different locations in Toronto, using Upstate New York as a backdrop, filming was relocated to Great Britain for six weeks. Nether Winchendon House, a historic Grade II listed medieval Tudor manor near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire , was used as the main venue. The Hungarian Mátyás Erdély acted as cameraman .

The film premiered on January 26, 2020 at the Sundance Film Festival . The first trailer was presented in June 2020. The film is scheduled to be released in the USA on September 18, 2020, but it is unclear whether it will be in cinemas, as a stream or video-on-demand.

Reviews

The film was rated positively by 83 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics and received 8 out of a possible 10 points.

Roger Ebert critic Brian Tallerico thinks Sean Durkin's script gives Carrie Coon and Jude Law two of the best roles of their careers, and both actors give it their all. Especially when Rory and Allison slowly move away from each other with passive-aggressive exchanges, their acting is breathtaking, and they have given the characters so much depth that the actions feel real. This is also due to the incredibly intelligent and astute dialogues that Durkin wrote for them. The Nest is a far cry from a filmed play, as Durkin uses threatening cinematic language, so when he makes the members of the family look in long corridors as if they were being swallowed up by the huge property, which in turn is a symbol of the wealth that is Rory above all appreciates. By almost completely avoiding close-ups of the actors' faces, Durkin keeps the audience at a distance.

Benjamin Lee from the Guardian noted in his review, to see how Alison gains the power to challenge Rory, the film will give some of its most dramatic moments, but he avoided it the conflicts between the two to make predictable. The film is elegantly constructed, with Durkin carefully recreating the era in which it takes place, without becoming too nostalgic. Briefly, at the beginning the viewer could have the feeling that a horror film is waiting for him.

Peter Debruge of Variety recognizes the troubling film parallels to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining , which are hard to miss, even if the horror of which are haunted the O'Hara is not supernatural. Rather, the breakup of this family has more to do with all the “luggage” they brought with them when they moved. The real point where you can compare The Nest and a movie like The Shining is the psychological stress on the family from the selfish Rory. In this respect, the film has in a certain sense something in common with Marriage Story or The Souvenir , in which a male ego acts destructively. In Debruge's eyes, one explanation for Rory's life plans is a visit from his mother, whom he has not seen for years. He wanted her to see his new home and meet the “beautiful blonde American girl” he married, but also show her the affection for his own son that he was denied himself.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Brian Tallerico: Sundance 2020: The Nest, The Father. In: rogerebert.com, February 1, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c Benjamin Lee: The Nest review - Jude Law and Carrie Coon fall apart in eerie 80s drama. In: The Guardian, January 27, 2020.
  3. ↑ https://theplaylist.net/100-most-anticipated-films-2020-20191203/5/#cb-content
  4. ↑ a b c Eric Kohn: Sundance Wish List: 60 Films We Hope Will Head to Park City in 2020. In: indiewire.com, November 18, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b DP Mátyás Erdély HSC harnesses Kodak 35mm film to powerfully unnerving effect for director Sean Durkin's 'The Nest'. In: kodak.com, March 20, 2020.
  6. ^ Nia Daniels: Jude Law begins filming The Nest. In: theknowledgeonline.com, September 6, 2018.
  7. ↑ 2020 Sundance Film Festival: 118 Feature Films Announced. In: sundance.org, December 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ Sundance Film Festival 2020: Program. In: sundance.org. Accessed December 21, 2019 (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  9. ↑ https://thefilmstage.com/first-trailer-for-sean-durkins-the-nest-finds-jude-law-and-carrie-coon-at-odds/
  10. ↑ https://www.slashfilm.com/the-nest-release-date/
  11. ↑ The Nest. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  12. ^ Peter Debruge: 'The Nest': Film Review. In: Variety, January 27, 2020.