February (2015)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Osgood Perkins (I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House)
	Actors: Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, James Remar, Lucy Boynton
	Country: USA, CDN
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 29.01.2016, Cinema espace du Lac, GIFFF2016, Official Selection
Synopsis: Katherine (Shipka) and Rose (Boynton) are stuck in their pension for at least one more day when their parents don't show up to pick them up for the Christmas break. Meanwhile Joan (Roberts) is helped by an old couple after getting stranded at a bus station.
Review: The director, son of Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates in Hitchcock's Psycho), could not be present at the Gérardmer Film Festival to introduce his movie but sent a video he recorded to this effect. He told about his wish to pay a tribute to the horror movies of the 60's-70's, but honestly I saw nothing of that in February. This story of three girls told in parallel and revolving around a pension is well filmed and the actresses are good, especially the disturbing at times Kiernan Shipka, but I found the movie extremely boring until the last ten minutes and the resolution yet surprising but coming far too late to change my opinion of the movie. Watching February provokes some thoughts and on one moment drove my hair on end, but I really didn't like the extremely slow pace, the many useless elements, the music sounding like a microphone at the bottom of a swimming pool, and the unrealistic reactions and dialogs of the characters.
Rating: 3 /10