Countryside? Bad. Eating apples? Bad. Maybe just kidding that that one’s bad? But maybe not? The local pub is also bad. The priest is bad. Everything (except possibly tea) is just very bad in Men, the latest film from Alex Garland, who previously brought us bad vacation (The Beach), bad tech bros (Ex Machina), and bad vegetation (Annihilation).
To make matters more disconcerting, every bad, ominous, looming person here seems to be played by Rory Kinnear. There may be some suggestion that “person” might be the wrong word for who or whatever Kinnear is playing, but poor Harper (Jessie Buckley) is quite clearly a very miserable person after a horrible incident involving her husband.
Why does the priest seem to know weird things about said incident? Why is the pub full of Rory Kinnears? Is Harper haunted and imagining things, or does a man (if he’s a man) follow her out of the woods? None of these questions are actually answerable until the movie comes out, but the trailer makes them intensely pressing.
Garland wrote and directed Men, which is his first project since the FX series Devs. Next up, he’s making a film called Civil War about which little is known, except that it’s an “action epic” that stars Kirsten Dunst, and it just started filming.
Men is in theaters May 20th.
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