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Went Up the Hill
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Sat 26 Oct 9:30 PM
The Piccadilly: Cinema 1
General Admission
Unclassified 15+
99 Mins | 2024 | Australian Premiere | New Zealand, Australia | Director: Samuel Van Grinsven | Feature | Fiction | Feature Fiction Competition | Guest in attendance | World Cinema | Guest in attendance | Red CarpetAbandoned as a child, Jack (Dacre Montgomery) travels to remote New Zealand to attend the funeral of his estranged mother, Elizabeth. There he meets her grieving widow, Jill (Vicky Krieps) who offers him a place to stay.
Over the nights that follow, Elizabeth’s spirit returns and possesses Jack and Jill, using each of their bodies to speak to the other, but leaving them with no memories of what was said (and done). Caught in a life-threatening nocturnal dance, Jack and Jill must find a way to let go of Elizabeth’s hold before she pushes them to the edge.
Director Samuel Van Grinsven draws on memories of his childhood in New Zealand’s South Island to inspire this psychological drama. Went Up the Hill is an original ghost story that explores the extremities of grief in pursuit of letting go.
Over the nights that follow, Elizabeth’s spirit returns and possesses Jack and Jill, using each of their bodies to speak to the other, but leaving them with no memories of what was said (and done). Caught in a life-threatening nocturnal dance, Jack and Jill must find a way to let go of Elizabeth’s hold before she pushes them to the edge.
Director Samuel Van Grinsven draws on memories of his childhood in New Zealand’s South Island to inspire this psychological drama. Went Up the Hill is an original ghost story that explores the extremities of grief in pursuit of letting go.
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