No offense to Emily and her extended stay in Paris, but one of the most satisfying aspects of the tightly spun and darkly funny chamber piece “Windfall” is seeing Lily Collins wearing the same, nondescript outfit throughout the proceedings and proving she doesn’t need 2,345 costume changes in this Hitchockian homage set entirely in and around the grounds of a sprawling, meticulously appointed property in Ojai, California. Collins is an actor and a damn fine one at that, and while her character at first appears to be the least intriguing and most innocuous person in the room, well, just you wait and see.
Directed by Charlie McDowell—son of Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen, husband of Lily—“Windfall” is yet another movie filmed during the pandemic, but that has no real bearing on the material, as it transpires over the course of two days on the property of a tech billionaire (Jesse Plemons) and his wife (Collins), who have made a last-minute decision to ditch a high-profile conference and spend some time at their idyllic retreat in an effort to recharge their frayed marriage.
