Darkness

DATE: October 8-11
TIME: Video On Demand
VENUE: NIGHTSTREAM Virtual Cinema

In these times of isolation at home, you might feel some sympathy for Stella (rising Italian star Denise Tantucci) and her two sisters, held captive in a large rambling mansion by their father. There is no sense of time or place. Is it the past? Or the future? He tells them an apocalyptic solar explosion has rendered the outside world uninhabitable and insists on a strictly ritualistic regimen inside the house, which he leaves occasionally to forage for food. In this fascinating study of a girl’s evolving rebellion against this status quo – torn between the sureties of her proscribed existence and the gnawing suspicion that it’s all a charade.