Greta

Neil Jordan has been missing from the screen for a few years, but he returns for this somewhat outlandish thriller about a lonely woman in New York (Isabelle Huppert) who’s visited by a young woman (Chloe Grace-Moretz) who finds her handbag on the subway and brings it back to her. Things spiral out of control into a saga of dependence and possessiveness that is somewhat unlikely but never the less frequently entertaining. Huppert has plenty of opportunities to go wild here, playing a character who shows less and less restraint as the film goes on. Moretz is franky a bit more of a wet blanket, there to suffer and react a whole bunch – her flatmate, played by Maika Monroe from “It Follows”, is a lot gutsier and more interesting (she also has the best stalker sequence in the film). Because it’s a Neil Jordan film, you get Stephen Rea in a role that probably isn’t really worth him but he’s showing up anyway because his mate is directing. I can’t say that this breaks many new grounds but as someone who enjoys Isabelle Huppert getting to go full on nutso, this definitely works pretty well.