Anxious and full of misgivings, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) travels through a blinding snowstorm with her boyfriend Jake (Jesse Plemons) to visit his parents (Toni Colette and David Thewlis) on their remote farm; upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself. Brilliantly performed, with a sustained atmosphere of encroaching dread, Charlie Kaufman’s claustrophobic adaptation of Iain Reid’s acclaimed novel balances humour, psychological horror, and existential despair to winning effect, creating a wholly original, intoxicating fever dream that effortlessly wrings the uncanny from the mundane.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Charlie Kaufman, hosted by Donald Clarke, chief film correspondent at The Irish Times.

Supported by The Bloomsday Film Festival. See all IFI and Bloomsday Film Festival 2023 screenings here.

Notes by David O’Mahony.