Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
A psychologically fractured character study anchored by a strong lead performance that elevates material which is otherwise somewhat familiar in its domestic-crisis and unreliable-narrator territory. The acting is genuinely exceptional — raw, committed, and carrying the film through its more elliptical stretches. The plot is serviceable and tense but leans on well-worn indie-drama conventions around maternal anxiety and marital dissolution. Cinematography is competent and moody, fitting the Montauk setting without being visually remarkable. Novelty is decent — the film has an identifiable voice and a suffocating interiority, though it doesn't break truly new ground. The ending lands as its weakest element, feeling deliberately withholding in a way that frustrates more than it resonates, undercutting the emotional investment built up prior.