Rebecca is a small girl who survives a plane crash into the Amazon. Years later her father, an evangelist preaching in the jungle has positioned her as faith healer of great power. However life beyond the church is complicating things.
This is a low key and rambling film that is just okay. We watch Rebecca as events transpire around her, her father tries to hook up with a nurse, the logging company clashes with the indigenous population and she preaches and heals. While the film has some tense moments, and keeps hinting at why the nurse thinks Rebecca looks familiar, the film never generates a great deal of enthusiasm. To be certain it is better than many of the other films playing at NYFF this year, but at the same time it just sort of is there and doesn't do anything.
Part of the reason for this is Helena Zengel, who plays Rebecca with a stony expression that never changes. Buster Keaton has nothing on this girl. It doesn't work because we never know what she is feeling.
An interesting misfire
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