Dev Patel’s Rabbit Trap is a psychedelic Horror Folk film – Sundance Review

Dev Patel AND Rosy Mcewen hero Rabbit trapA film that takes place in the beautiful Welsh campaign and has an extraordinarily engaging sound landscape.

A couple of musicians who live in a cottage and works on their avant -garde music is rapidly launched under a sort of spell when a child comes out of the house.

Assuming that the child is only a neighbor who listened to their strange music, they let the child enter, who is immediately a red flag. Never let the disturbing boy in your home, especially when he knows too much about the encounter and killing of rabbits.

Things become truly strange and even more difficult to explain while the plot slowly begins to melt, in a similar way to how my brain felt to look at this. It is not clear what is really happening with respect to what the characters perceive, which I will admit can be frustrating sometimes. But rather than fighting against it, I could suggest enjoying the atmosphere.

This film is decidedly more atmospheric, with very few real leap fears, but it does an excellent job of feeling disturbing but so so this way. If you love a slow film that allows you to crogging in the horror Folksy, you will like it.

I was fascinated practically until the end, which surprised me because I am easily bored. The acting of all three characters really sold me, so even if the plot could fall a little to pieces, I was busy for the whole film.

The official description reads: “When a musician and her husband move to a remote house in Wales, the music they produce disturbs the local popular magic of local ancient magic, bringing a child without name to their gate that intends to infiltrate their lives”.

“Set in 1976, the extraordinary film by the writer and director Bryn Chainey invokes the disturbing spirit of the British folk horror, evoking supernatural terror in a fruitful Welsh forest.

“The obsessive avant -garde musician Daphne (Rosy McEwen) struggles to ribbon machines and reel coil oscillators in their cottage while the retired husband, Darcy (Dev Patel), collects field recordings in the neighboring woods.

“Their activities attract the attention of a mysterious young rabbit trapper (a unnerving Jade Croot) who detaches them, disturbing their fragile peace.

“Rabbit trap He launches a spell of infested sensuality and submerged traumas through the tactile images of 35 mm tactiles by cinema Andreas Johannesssen and a synaesthetic sound landscape created in collaboration between the composer Lucrecia Dalt and the sound designer Graham Reznick.

“Patel and Mcewen are quietly moving like the young couple, rooting this otherworldly fairy tale with a portrait of a marriage supported through an irritated intimacy and a restless creative collaboration.”