Black Rock (15) 80 mins ***
This unusual,
mumblecore-derived thriller whittles a boilerplate genre scenario into a
strikingly bleak vision of male-female relations. Three twentysomething women,
sundered by bloke-related squabbles, sail to a remote island for bonding larks,
only to be spooked by a trio of men bearing big guns and grudges. Some running
around in the woods follows, but – both narratively and psychologically – it’s
clear how everybody got here, and there’s something resonant in the way the
camps are reduced to vengeful Adams and naked, shivering, stick-sharpening
Eves. Slender, but committed: even Kate Bosworth, as the girls’ team leader,
foreswears her usual lipgloss.
Black Rock opens in selected cinemas from today.
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