After sequestering herself to a small mountain town, an aging actress calls her estranged daughter and granddaughter home for reconciliation and one final celebration.
Acting
Frances Conroy's brittle, towering performance as Ethel.
Cinematography
Claustrophobic interiors vs. vast, indifferent mountains.
Director
Alex O Eaton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in just 12 days in North Carolina with a skeleton crew; the cabin was found via Airbnb.
Eaton based Ethel partly on her own grandmother, a frustrated actress who chose domesticity over career—then resented both.
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