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We’ve spent February discussing Albert Lewin’s 1945 adaptation of The Portrait of Dorian Gray (listen), the perfectly serviceable remake of Friday the 13th (listen), and Pedro Almodóvar’s controversial 2011 thriller The Skin I Live In (listen). Now we’re wrapping up the month with Neil Jordan’s wacky May/December stalker film, Greta (2018).
In the film, Chloë Grace Moretz plays Frances, a new to New York girl who befriends an older woman, Greta (Isabelle Huppert) after returning her lost purse. While the pair strike up an unlikely friendship, Frances’ roommate Erica (Maika Monroe) finds the relationship unusual.
What Frances doesn’t know is that Greta is more than a sad, lonely old woman. She’s got secrets in a trunk, a syringe full of sedatives, and a penchant for burying her secrets, including private investigator Stephen Rea, in the basement.
Will Frances wind up like all of Greta’s other girls?
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Episode 271: Greta (2018) feat. Rachel Scanlon
Leave a purse on the subway and stick with us like chewing gum because we’re talking about Neil Jordan’s May/December stalker film, Greta (2018).
Hanging out in a trunk with us is comic Rachel Scanlon, who appreciates the film’s sapphic handplay and lesbian dog-adopting energy.
Plus: wishing the film would go harder, Isabelle Huppert dance memes, texting thrills, useless men, comparable films, and Maika Monroe’s Erica as the best roommate/wannabe girlfriend.
Cross out Greta!
Coming up on Wednesday: We’re kicking off March with a look at Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper (2016).
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