{"id":35632,"date":"2021-08-17T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T04:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=35632"},"modified":"2021-08-12T08:37:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T12:37:05","slug":"glasshouse-2021-fantasia-film-festival-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/17\/glasshouse-2021-fantasia-film-festival-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasshouse (2021) [Fantasia Film Festival 2021]\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In this post-apocalyptic take on The Beguiled, a toxin called The Shred gets in the air and erases parts of people\u2019s memories, giving them symptoms resembling dementia.\u00a0In the midst of\u00a0this, a family lives in a\u00a0glasshouse, doing everything the mother believes necessary to survives. That is until a stranger comes into their lives and between the two sisters.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Written by\u00a0Emma\u00a0Lungiswa\u00a0De Wet and Kelsey Egan and directed by the latter, Glasshouse is a slow-moving film that takes the viewer in, puts them in this world within the film, comforts them a bit, and then adds\u00a0more and more\u00a0to the story. The film\u2019s connection to The Beguiled is something that helps it here, giving the film a familiarity while also leaving some room to grow from. The film develops a world that it keeps to and works within the rules created\u00a0therein. This is something that is often sidestepped by many films to be able to achieve what they want. Here, rules are in place in the story and the world, pushing the characters in certain directions which may be predictable at times and surprising at others. No matter this, the story pulls the viewer in slowly.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The cast here shines. They are given plenty of room to work within and have characters that are fully fleshed. This means that\u00a0all of\u00a0the cast,\u00a0mainly 6\u00a0people, do\u00a0great work\u00a0here. The two sisters give particularly good performances, going through a wide array of emotions and making these emotions connect with the viewers. Jessica Alexander and Anja Taljaard play Bee and Evie respectively and they both bring it. They are emotional, but not overly so. They are nuanced without exaggerating. These are the kind of performances that keep the viewer involved and interested, even when a film feels like it has a slow pace. Their work, as well as that of the rest of the cast, works\u00a0just about perfectly\u00a0for the film and its story.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Glasshouse is a moody film that grabs the viewer and just pulls them in slowly, giving them something to care about, some images that look just stunning, and so much more. Yes,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0a take on a\u00a0long-loved\u00a0story and often adapted one, but\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0definitely one\u00a0of the better versions of it with some elements added that bring it into the current fears and worries of the world in just the right way.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Fantasia International Film Festival runs every year, and this year runs virtually from August 5th until August 25th.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this post-apocalyptic take on The Beguiled, a toxin called The Shred gets in the air and erases parts of people\u2019s memories, giving them symptoms resembling dementia.\u00a0In the midst of\u00a0this, a family lives in a\u00a0glasshouse, doing everything the mother believes necessary to survives. That is until a stranger comes into their lives and between the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497,12],"tags":[64,111,302,1749,356,367,477,1012,1013],"class_list":["post-35632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasia-fest","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-arthouse","tag-drama","tag-fantasia","tag-film-festival","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-survival","tag-suspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35646,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35632\/revisions\/35646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}