![]() ![]() Playing her opposite, Norton as George is exactly who we need him to be. The actress brings a vulnerability to Catherine without ever fully becoming a doormat no matter how much her own husband tries to isolate and gaslight her. This may be a story about a marriage, but we are firmly in her corner and her POV from the beginning. Of course, to do this, you need a strong actress in the lead, and Seyfried once again proves she is up to the task. James Norton and Amanda Seyfried with Karen Allen in Things Heard & Seen ![]() Those timeless tales mine the psyches of women, spilling their horrors onto the page, empowering while terrifying them. The film could easily sit on a shelf between Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca. So many elements reach back to its Gothic predecessors. The story itself seems to emerge from another time, and I don’t mean the 1980s. It’s difficult to know where to begin with this particular film. She soon comes to sense a sinister darkness lurking both in the walls of the ramshackle property-and in her marriage to George. Even as she does her best to transform the old dairy farm into a place where young daughter Franny will be happy, Catherine increasingly finds herself isolated and alone. In the film, Catherine Claire (Amanda Seyfried) reluctantly trades life in 1980s Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George (James Norton) lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. The stunning, and often harrowing, supernatural tale based on the novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage was co-written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. ![]() Things Heard & Seen is set to release tomorrow on Netflix. ![]()
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