The read
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 29m.
Synopsis
Cordelia ia a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a creepy London mansion flat occupied by her twin sister Caroline and Caroline’s boyfriend Matt. When they leave her alone there Cordelia strikes up a friendship with Frank the charming, but strange and unreliable young man they can hear practising his cello in the upstairs flat – a relationship which quickly becomes very disturbing.
Ratings
IMDb4.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes73%
Metacritic66/100
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
43 audience votes
Key crew
- Adrian ShergoldDirector
- Antonia Campbell-HughesWriter
- Adrian ShergoldWriter
- Natalie HoltOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Antonia Campbell-HughesCordelia / Caroline
- Johnny FlynnFrank
- Catherine McCormackKate
- Joel FryMatt
- Anna DanshinaNatasha
- Michael GambonMr. Moses
- Drew EdwardsCab Driver (uncredited)
Stills
Themes
basement