Paramount and Prime Video have struck a Star Trek deal for the former’s international streamer outside Canada.
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“Can people come back?” asks Mia, the cute little girl whose increasingly hair-raising antics are the crux of this atmospheric Midnight premiere from Australia. From the dead, she means, and it’s a macabre thought that Daina Reid’s effective but perhaps overlong debut feature film plays with quite tantalizingly, right until the end. Although the tease may wear down commercial audiences expecting to find out one way or the other, Run Rabbit Run will find favor on the arthouse and especially the festival circuit.
Like a lot of recent genre films with female leads — eg Ari Aster’s Hereditary or Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook — Reid’s film takes place in a time of fresh bereavement or recent marriage trauma. In this case, it’s both: Sarah (Sarah Snook), Mia’s mother, is dealing with her father’s death, but the hammer blow comes when her ex-husband announces that he and his new wife are trying for a baby, something she thought they’d both drawn a line under when they were a couple. In the meantime, Mia has adopted a mysterious white rabbit, which seems to have appeared from nowhere, and reacts violently when her mother tries, quite unceremoniously, to chuck it over the garden fence.
Like both those aforementioned films, Run Rabbit Run deliberately overlaps notions of reality and abstraction, and that blurring only intensifies when, immediately after her seventh birthday, Mia claims that Sarah is not her mother. The strangeness increases when Mia starts to insist that she is really Sarah’s sister Alice, who disappeared when she was also seven, and demands to meet Sarah’s estranged mother Joan (Greta Scacchi), now suffering from dementia. Mia’s behavior extends to school, where her teachers sagely note the strange, angry
Paramount and Prime Video have struck a Star Trek deal for the former’s international streamer outside Canada.
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