Female Film Critics 24/375
Sarah Snook is one of our most formidable actresses. Now she stars in All Her Fault, a mystery thriller that pivots on every parent’s worst nightmare. When Marissa Irvine (Snook) arrives to pick up her five-year-old son Milo (Duke McCloud) from a playdate in a Chicago suburb, she discovers that the woman who answers the door doesn’t have her child – and there never was a playdate. Milo has been kidnapped.
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Adam Elliot, whose latest animation, Memoir of a Snail, is currently in theaters, can’t imagine spending his days attached to a computer. That distaste for a life spent perpetually engaged with technology altered the course of his life when he became interested in animation while in film school in his native Australia. Instead of pursuing computer graphics like so many of his classmates, he forged his own path with stop-motion animation, joining a select group that embraces the retro form that includes Tim Burton, Henry Sellick, Guillermo Del Toro, and the folks at England’s Aardman Animation and Oregon’s LAIKA Studios.
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Anyone familiar with the work of stop motion animator Adam Elliot (Harvey Krumpet, Mary & Max) knows the Australian storyteller creates expansive emotional universes within his carefully handcrafted worlds. Memoir of a Snail is a beautifully melancholy tale of broken hearts and learning to heal them. Memoir of a Snail is a miracle of compassion.
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If you’ve been intrigued by Sarah Snook as sly Shiv Roy on HBO’s Succession, you may find it interesting to see how she tackles a very different role in this Australian psychological thriller. She plays Sarah, a fertility doctor, raising her daughter Mia (Lily LaTorre) as a single mother in suburban Melbourne. Ever since her seventh birthday when she ‘rescued’ a white rabbit, precocious Mia seems to be acting strangely and attentive Sarah cannot figure out why there’s been such a change in her behavior.
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Run Rabbit Run is a clumsy attempt to capture maternal anxiety and the Gothic without fully fleshing out mood and atmosphere required and underwriting the protagonist (and ironically over-writing her in places). Run Rabbit Run could have benefitted from a tighter and more precise screenplay but instead meanders to an unsatisfactory conclusion that audiences most likely predicted before it happened, rendering the chill of it lukewarm at best.
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