The violence of Jennifer Kent’s film doesn’t seem to build upon its themes so much as repeat them.
The Nightingale Trailer: Aisling Franciosi and Sam Claflin Star in Jennifer Kent’s Follow-Up to The Babadook
by Alexa Camp
Today, IFC has released the first trailer for the film, which is set during the colonization of Australia in 1825.
A harrowing tale of a mother-son haunting that manages to uncomfortably detonate several theoretically reassuring parental platitudes.
Its horrors reach back to the primordial fear of death and loss: of a child, of a loved one, of one’s own sense of self.