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‘Queen of Bones’ Review: Twins Navigate a Series of Tepid Travails During the Great Depression
Teen siblings face oppression on all sides in Robert Budreau's 'Queen of Bones,' a mild rural gothic with an underdeveloped supernatural angle.
Religious hysteria, family secrets and a tinge of the occult make hard times all the harder for protagonists in “ Queen of Bones.” This Ontario-shot U.S. indie production is a rural gothic with echoes of both “Flowers in the Attic’s” dark YA melodrama and “Carrie’s” supernaturally vengeful coming of age. Attending his funeral in town, Malcolm faces the undiluted wrath of a mother-in-law (Patricia Phillips) who still blames him for taking her daughter to the backcountry — where, it’s suggested, she fell into some sort of evil pagan mischief. Director Robert Budreau, best known previously for a couple fact-based Ethan Hawke vehicles (“Stockholm,” “Born to Be Blue”), makes an effort at period flavor here that begins with the near-square aspect ratio and muted color palette of cinematographer Andre Pienaar’s imagery.
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