2022 · thriller · drama · coming-of-age
The Origin of Evil
Directed by Sébastien Marnier2h 3m2022
In a luxurious seaside villa, a modest young woman finds herself in the company of a strange family : an unknown and wealthy father, his extravagant wife, his daughter, an ambitious woman, a rebellious teenager, and their creepy maid.
Our read: The Origin of Evil (2022) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive thriller · drama · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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