Because sometimes, the surprise “spoiler” ending is the only reason you’d pay $11 to see what is otherwise a turkey of a film.The two younger ones sleep, while the older ones discuss how it seems inevitable that the truth about what has happened in their household becomes known and authorities intervene, since Derek already knows. In a rather unsettling sequence, the four siblings wind up naked in Julie’s bedroom Sue and Tom in the crib, while Julie and Jack lie on Julie’s bed. When Derek finds the cement block -the one the siblings entombed the corpse of their mother in, so it wouldn’t be known she died and they wouldn’t be broken apart-, Jack tries to cover up that “a dead dog is in it”, but drops hints of his mother. Despite the efforts of the two eldest ones, Jack (Andrew Robertson) and Julie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), to act as parental figures, the mental state of the two younger ones -Tom (Ned Birkin) and Sue (Alice Coulthard)- progressively deteriorates.Īt the same time, Julie attracts the attention of an older man called Derek (Jochen Horst) -much to Jack’s dismay and jealousy-, who eventually finds himself wondering what is hidden in the basement. After their mother (Sinéad Cusack) dies from an undisclosed illness -presumably cancer-, the situation of the four siblings turns grim and uncertain.
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