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Drama, Fantasy, Horror 103 min
IMDb6.1
Care worker Shoo, who is haunted by a personal tragedy, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman, who fears both her neighbours and the Na Sídhe – sinister folkloric entities she believes abducted her decades before.
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Contemplative, intimate, bleak and open-ended.
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Fréwaka is the real thing. Unhurried, and the unhurriedness is the point. One for the shelf of things I press on people.
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*Fréwaka* contains almost everything you might reasonably order from the folk-horror catalogue: an isolated Irish village, an old woman barricaded behind iron, a fairy tree hung with offerings, hostile locals, a goat, Catholic iconography, inherited trauma and something ancient waiting for a family debt to be settled. The problem is not that the film lacks ideas. It is that it keeps putting them somewhere we cannot quite see them. Shoo arrives to care for Peig after the death of her own mother, and soon discovers a house organised around keeping something out. Iron objects guard doors and windows. A red door sits at the end of a corridor looking wonderfully wrong. Peig refuses contact with the village. These are good, specific pieces of horror storytelling because they make us ask the right question: what does Peig know? Unfortunately, *Fréwaka* spends much of its running time declining to answer even the questions that would make its uncertainty interesting. There is a difference between making us work and making us repeatedly check whether we have understood the basic sequence of events. The wedding, the missing bride, the child, Peig’s history, Shoo’s mother and the unfinished b
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