Andrea Riseborough
(Picture: handout)What’s eating Andrea Riseborough? Sometimes this brilliant actress is so intense it’s downright distracting. In the starry, feline-focused biopic The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, nothing matched the voltage of Riseborough’s supporting character, who gave new meaning to the phrase “having kittens”. What luck that, in this stark, low-budget psychological thriller, she’s the centre of attraction. We’re meant to be mesmerised by her fraught, blue eyes; her pain is entirely our gain.
Northern Irish housewife and mother, Laura (Riseborough; nailing the accent just as she did in Shadow Dancer) has a big smile that she uses a lot with her husband, Brendan (Jonjo O’Neill) and son, Tadhg (Lewis McAskie). A few years ago, their daughter Josie was killed in a car accident. When a family move into the house next door, Laura is instantly drawn to the young girl, Megan (Niamh Dornan). That big smile of Laura’s falters, though, when the child starts alluding to the past. Megan claims she’s been here before. Is she a reincarnation of Josie or is someone trying to mess with Laura’s mind?
