A tightly crafted exercise in the art of seething, Somewhere Quiet is a modest and well-acted thriller. rockmarooned's Tribeca2023 review:
; give her five or ten minutes, and she can make your movie that much better. Here she has a more substantial role that has her playing two different notes at once; at any given time, she has to appear warm and welcoming to Scott and off-putting to Meg. She accomplishes this by digging into the kind of chummy presumptuousness that can only be bought with an upper-class line of credit. It’s a perfect deployment of a performer with gravity and charisma, but not movie-star-level familiarity.
There is more to the movie, however, than the inconvenience of dealing with your husband’s annoying cousin: Meg is experiencing possible hallucinations and sleepwalking in the aftermath of her trauma, which fray at both her sanity and her trust in Scott. Keying into Meg’s state of mind, writer-director Olivia West Lloyd teases menace out of family tradition, observing how the unspoken histories of close, perhaps cloistered family members can look more like bizarre rituals to an outsider.
Occasionally, Lloyd relies on certain thriller mechanics to keep the story moving, mostly involving the degree to which Meg can be convinced, unconvincingly, to remain in a situation that makes her feel somewhere between unsafe and terrified. Butis a thriller, not just a moody exercise; it knows when to step back from the issues it raises and deliver real suspense.
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