Cuckoo
8:00pm - Saturday, Sep 21, 2024
Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father's boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen's mute half-sister Alma. Something doesn't seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret that also concerns her own family. Starring Hunter Schafer (HBO's 'Euphoria'), Dan Stevens.
"[Writer-director Tilman] Singer shoots it all with a puppet master’s tightness of control, never pushing a single sequence too far, and leaving room for the monstrous chill of suggestion." (Independent)
“Cuckoo' is cuckoo and batty and a whole lot of scary fun.” (Boston Movie News)
"Amid unsettling sound design and plotting that is in every sense loopy, questions are raised about nature and nurture, and about human bonds that go beyond the conventional norms of genetics and biology." (Sight & Sound)
Saturday, September 21
Doors 7:30 pm | Movie 8:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
CUCKOO (Tilman Singer, 2024 / 104 mins / 14A ) Amid unsettling sound design and plotting that is in every sense loopy, questions are raised about nature and nurture, and about human bonds that go beyond the conventional norms of genetics and biology.
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