The Village Voice, May 17th, 2006
Lemming
Directed by Dominik Moll
Strand, opens May 19
Domestic Violence
Guess who's coming to dinner?Your boss's unstable wife and a host of hauntings
Exhilaratingly anxious, Dominik Moll's new film Lemming charts familiar territory but does it with gravity and panache. Truly, the Idealized Upper-Middle-Class Family Under Metaphoric Siege Movie is such a perennial that one could be forgiven for a certain degree of genre fatigue-last year, Michael Haneke's Caché may have elevated the dynamic onto a new plane of philosophical angst. Moll himself debuted with a creepily enthralling entry, 2...
HighBeam Research, Free Preview: 'Lemming'... Full Membership required for unlimited access. Free 7-day trial.
Subscribers: HighBeam content is only available to HighBeam subscribers. Click the link above for more information.