This horror-tinged German drama centres around a young girl experiencing night-time visions in an early 19th-century port town where a child killer is at large. Freudian undercurrents and the mood of sexual unease suggest a kinship with Angela Carter’s revisionist fairytales, as well as Italian maestro Dario Argento in this dark coming-of-age tale rich in atmospheric detail.
This horror-tinged German drama centres around a young girl experiencing night-time visions in an early 19th-century port town where a child killer is at large. Freudian undercurrents and the mood of sexual unease suggest a kinship with Angela Carter’s revisionist fairytales, as well as Italian maestro Dario Argento in this dark coming-of-age tale rich in atmospheric detail.