The so-called “elevated” horror genre has lately been overrun with stories in which supernatural creepings function as a metaphor for psychological trauma and dysfunction. At first through-the-fingers glance, “You Are Not My Mother” appears to be following suit, centering as it does on an isolated teenage girl haunted by the unpredictable rhythms of her mother’s debilitating mental illness. But this pervasively eerie, emotionally acute debut from Irish writer-director Kate Dolan doesn’t trade in neat symbolism or pat explanations: Steeped in local folklore, it lets mythic and mind-based terrors exist side by side, allowing the viewer to interpret and believe what they will. This leeway comes at no cost, however, to its effective atmospherics, which sink into the bones like an unexpected twilight chill.
Now getting a limited theatrical run Stateside, Dolan’s film was a highlight of last year’s Midnight Madness selection at Toronto, though that label...
Now getting a limited theatrical run Stateside, Dolan’s film was a highlight of last year’s Midnight Madness selection at Toronto, though that label...
- 3/25/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Writer, producer, and director whose credits include “The Other Side Of The Wind”and “Jasmine” will helm the Hitchcockian thriller Kirkwood, to be filmed in St. Louis during the fall and winter of 2019. Read the 2015 Wamg interview with Dax Here
Los Angeles-based writer/producer/director Dax Phelan (“The Other Side of the Wind”) will return home to St. Louis to direct his sophomore feature film, “Kirkwood,” this fall and winter. The film is a Hitchcockian suspense thriller about former police detective Joe Dolan and his estranged teenage son, Max, who grow closer as they work together to cover up an accidental murder. But, when the family of the deceased hires a ruthless private investigator to re-examine the evidence in the case and the investigator begins to suspect the Dolans, Max’s sanity is pushed to the breaking point and Joe must take extreme measures to keep their secret safe. Phelan...
Los Angeles-based writer/producer/director Dax Phelan (“The Other Side of the Wind”) will return home to St. Louis to direct his sophomore feature film, “Kirkwood,” this fall and winter. The film is a Hitchcockian suspense thriller about former police detective Joe Dolan and his estranged teenage son, Max, who grow closer as they work together to cover up an accidental murder. But, when the family of the deceased hires a ruthless private investigator to re-examine the evidence in the case and the investigator begins to suspect the Dolans, Max’s sanity is pushed to the breaking point and Joe must take extreme measures to keep their secret safe. Phelan...
- 7/24/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: The Other Side Of The Wind co-producer Dax Phelan is gearing up to direct his second feature, Kirkwood.
Phelan, whose 2015 debut Jasmine played at festivals including Hong Kong, Palm Springs and Stockholm, is aiming to shoot the film in St Louis this fall and winter. Casting is currently under way.
The suspense thriller follows former police detective Joe Dolan and his estranged teenage son, Max, who grow closer as they work together to cover up an accidental murder. When the family of the deceased hires a ruthless private investigator to re-examine the evidence in the case and the investigator begins to suspect the Dolans, Max’s sanity is pushed to the breaking point and Joe must go to extreme lenghts to keep their secret safe.
Phelan wrote the story with his father, Joe Phelan, a former City of St. Louis policeman. He will produce with Stratton Leopold, an executive producer on Mission: Impossible III,...
Phelan, whose 2015 debut Jasmine played at festivals including Hong Kong, Palm Springs and Stockholm, is aiming to shoot the film in St Louis this fall and winter. Casting is currently under way.
The suspense thriller follows former police detective Joe Dolan and his estranged teenage son, Max, who grow closer as they work together to cover up an accidental murder. When the family of the deceased hires a ruthless private investigator to re-examine the evidence in the case and the investigator begins to suspect the Dolans, Max’s sanity is pushed to the breaking point and Joe must go to extreme lenghts to keep their secret safe.
Phelan wrote the story with his father, Joe Phelan, a former City of St. Louis policeman. He will produce with Stratton Leopold, an executive producer on Mission: Impossible III,...
- 7/24/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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