Dad, clad only in his underclothes, lies stiffening on the kitchen table. Once dressed, he begins his last journey to join us, the mesmerized audience, in the dark flicker of the cinema. A glitteringly sombre fable.
Steeped in the rituals of their decaying family home, a middle-aged brother and sister cling to a past that is at once comforting and burdensome. In HOUSE TAKEN OVER every detail of sight and sound presses uneasily on the subconscious.