A film by Hanna Bergholm
With: Rupert Grint, Seidi Haarla, Pamela Tola, Pirkko Saisio, Rebecca Lacey, John Thomson
With dreams of starting a perfect family, Saga and her British husband Jon move to the isolated house where she spent much of her childhood, deep in the Finnish forest. But as soon as their baby is born, despite the reassurance of all around her, Saga knows there’s something terribly wrong. As their marriage starts to crack, Jon struggles to support his wife, but only Saga suspects the disturbing truth about her new-born.
Our rate : –
A film that is as gory as it is conventional, and vice versa. It has no place in the Berlinale selection except to fill quotas and satisfy those who would otherwise complain about the lack of genre films in the selection. Except that here, we are very far from the visual success of, for example, The Substance, or the insane mash-up of Titane, to cite two examples of genre films that were successful at Cannes. The question is not, and should not be, whether to select genre films, but rather whether to select unique, high-quality films. In this case, Yön Lapsi is one of many productions that have the misguided idea of treating postpartum depression as an analogy with a horror film, leaving the viewer to choose between gratuitous gore and psychological gore. Not very interesting, then.
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