Echoes of REPULSION and THE SHINING mix with 1960's art films or perhaps the stark black and white films of Andy Milligan to make one strange movie.
I had hoped to catch this film when it recently played at Lincoln Center's Scary Movie series, however I had to wait for a trip to Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival to actually see it. Sadly I'm not sure it was worth the wait.
As deliberate and manipulative as a film can be DARLING seems to be more about mood than it is about plot. Granted the film is supposed to be about a trip into the shattered psyche of Darling, but there isn't much to tie it all together. I love the films pieces, the stark NYC photography, the occasional frightening image and Lauren Ashley Carter's performance, but as a whole the film left me cold and down right annoyed.
Blame the wildly overdone score which runs roughshod over everything and blame the occasional strobbing effect that gave me a headache and had be keeping my eyes closed for part of the film lest my brain explode.
Despite this being the one film I wanted to see at Ithaca I was disappointed.
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