Lavender is a Psychological Thrill

"After losing her memory, a woman begins to see unexplained things after her psychiatrist suggests she visit her childhood home".

Colin Frizzell and Ed Gass-Donnelly have written a slow-moving suspense that takes you into a world where the loss of a certain memory causes Jane the inability to recall who her family was and what they meant to her. In the beginning, we know they have died and that little Jane is part of the crime scene, holding a razor in her hand as she sits unmoving in a corner of the room. The rest of the film moves ahead twenty-five years later where Jane is married and she and her supporting husband have a young daughter, Alice. Strangely, Alice begins to talk to someone. Here I thought, okay, I have seen this before--the "Imaginary Friend" syndrome. I know where this is headed, some kind of demon-possession or something similar in nature. But really, it turns out to be much different (but no specific spoilers).

And so the movie goes along, Jane wrestling with a mysterious past while seeing glimpses of it and not quite sure what to make of it. The movie does move slowly, primarily because Jane is so fixated on trying to remember her connection to the traumatic event and her relationship with her parents and sister, who died so tragically before her eyes. The premise and the outcome is definitely unique. Director Ed Gass-Donnelly captures Jane's perspective well as she wrestles with trying to understand how what she is seeing now and the flickering of the past connect. I recommend the film, not if you are looking for some highly concentrated suspense, but if you're interested in a slower psychological thrill.

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