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The Eye of the Storm

2011 · 114 min

A slow, acidic chamber piece where a dying matriarch's presence hangs over everyone, watching privileged people squirm is quietly gripping.

Overview: In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel princess, convene at her deathbed. They come to make sure they can leave Australia with their hefty inheritance.
How it feels: Dark, melancholic, tense and satirical. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Family, death, greed, betrayal
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
death
greed
betrayal
identity
Places: suburbs
single country house
big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild