Tom At The Farm (Tom à la ferme)

The tyranny Tom finds himself subject to at the farmhouse of Guilliame, the friend whose funeral he is attending, is the sort of tyranny of classic romantic literature - I thought of the terror Joss held over the 'Jamaica Inn' - and the Quebecois farm is wintery and isolated like the Jamaica Inn or like Manderley, and like 'Rebecca', Tom represents the new, a liberal young alternative urbanite who doesn't belong, and he little realises how completely his world will have to change - and how quickly - to maintain Guilliame's family's rigid, secretive, retentive rural conservatism.

★★★★☆

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7 Days (2010)

The schedule of torture inflicted by a father against the prime suspect in his daughter's murder lasts seven days and unless you are "into" torture porn - chain floggings, a Misery-style hobbling, taunts with a shotgun, and then some - the only thing that might keep you watching through the depravity of this Canadian horror-thriller is the hope that something interesting might happen on Day 7.

★☆☆☆☆

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