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‘Odyssey’ Review: A Woman In Trouble Turns To The Dark Side In Gerard Johnson’s Tough London Thriller – SXSW
‘Odyssey’ review: A woman in trouble turns to the dark side in Gerard Johnson’s tough London thriller – SXSW
Natasha has plenty of wisdom to share, letting Dylan in on the secrets of the trade (a property is “never small but compact”) and bringing her along to deal with two sets of clients, a naïve young straight couple and then — much more of a challenge — a pair of finicky gay men. But more subversive is the way Johnson has us root for the morally dubious Natasha, who leaves her creditors twisting in the wind — much like her tenants, who come to understand the true of meaning of buyer’s remorse — and yet somehow finds the money to fund a cocaine habit. Maberly is the glue that binds together what could so easily have looked like two very different scripts cut in half and jammed together; as a result, the film really works to earn the dramatic tonal shift that builds to a climax involving a deserted farmhouse, vast armory of weapons and a glowing pentagram carved into the floorboards.
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