★★★1/ 2 The idea is not bad at all: make the biography of a horror writer as if it were a thriller that imitates the manner of her texts. Shirley Jackson, well known for her classic story The Lottery, the pinnacle of political horror, is here the object of biography (very well Elisabeth Moss, that face that can seduce or frighten) and everything revolves around a young couple who are object and inspiration of a fictional story, which allows the director Josephine Decker to get involved (sometimes closer to the clip than to the cinema, but she forgives herself) in the creative process and, therefore, the life and thought of the author. The film is, by the way, uneven, but it offers many pleasures. In a sense, perhaps it’s just the right form for a movie that actually takes place inside a complex mind, even if it sometimes means going overboard with period setting or sardonic reconstruction of intellectual married life.
