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.

Notes by David O’Mahony.