‘Ozark’ star Julia Garner reunites with the director of ‘The Assistant’ for an appealingly uncomfortable watch.
The Royal Hotel
Green’s feature, which hit the Toronto International Film Festival after a premiere at Telluride, lives in the uncertainty of this distinction. In the remote Australian pub where the story takes place, laughter and wails are almost interchangeable. That tension makes the film excruciating but exciting; like the characters, the viewer has to try to suss out what is a danger and what is just a good time.
Green and Redding’s script is deliberately obscure about Liv and Hanna’s lives back home. They are clearly running away from something—Hanna was a business and marketing major, yet somehow has no money—but they choose not to discuss it. Instead, we get a picture of their relationship from the way they respond to the challenges the Royal presents.
Violence in these interactions is a possibility, but not necessarily a given, which is one of the reasons Green’s narrative is so unsettling. Garner, brilliant as a disassociating employee of a Weinstein-type figure in, here contorts herself into a state of constant fear with moments of release. She allows herself a flirtation with a regular named Matty , who seems like a sweet enough guy when he’s jamming out to Kylie Minogue in his car, but also displays hints of aggression.
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