Eighteen-year-old Lilja visits grandmother Áóra and grandfather Grimur to be proximate to an audition for an international performance group unable to contact her father Magnus about her stay. How sweet, a stay with granny and grandpa!
Kalli, the son of Granny and Grandpa, is bedridden in their home seriously ill. Their daughter Val owner of an apothecary and an alcoholic often tipples from a flask. She distrusts her mother that sweet granny
Granny is a bit strange forcing Lilja to pray before an icon and a strange soapstone carving. She is an icy woman with a stern and menacing streak.
Lilja’s family members particularly Val and Magnús her father are adamant Lilja not remain in Granny and Grandpa’s home. Your curiosity will augment about why. The tension will slowly develop and through some veiled clues your curiosity may intensify to sheer terror for a horrific double twisted ending as your reward.
Yes, a thinking audience member who pays close attention to the film will be well rewarded. A thinking person’s horror movie. Elin Petersdottir as Áóra exudes Nordic viciousness and commands the screen with Stefanía Bernsden the tortured keeper of a family secret. Is Kalli a victim in progress with one glaring weakness in the film’s conclusion being it made no sense that David ran.
As they say here in Greece, Fonissa.
By the way natatorium is a building where there is a swimming pool.
Director is Helena Stefánsdottir. Watch the trailer here https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hcb-QrmuwJw
RKS 2024 Film Rating 83/100.
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