FROZEN – Shirley Henderson – d: Juliet McKoen

Frozen (2005)
Director: Juliet McKoen
Screenplay: Juliet McKoen and Jayne Steel
Cast: Shirley Henderson, Roshan Seth, Richard Armitage, Jayne Ashbourne, Les Audley, Nick Bagnall, Jamie Sives
 

 

The tale of a young fishery worker obsessed with the mysterious disappearance of her older sister, Frozen is a curious mélange of psychological drama and metaphysical mystery-thriller. The end result, however, is a mixed bag. The story, though conceptually intriguing, lacks coherence, and Scottish actress Shirley Henderson is seriously miscast as the borderline-pathological heroine.
On the positive side, director Juliet McKoen ably captures the atmosphere of gloom and emptiness of a drab fishing town on Britain’s northwestern coast, while the film’s key revelation, even though it trails several farfetched plot developments, is appropriately surprising and disturbing.
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by Andre Soares | December 3, 2004   
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