Dead Lover’ Review: Macabre Attempt to Keep a Lost Romance Alive Is Both Entertaining and Inventive
By Murtada Elfadl
According To The variety When a film starts with a quote from Mary Shelley, it’s tempting to predict exactly where the story might be going. Sure enough, “Dead Lover” features the resurrection of a dead creature, and yet, writer-director Grace Glowicki keeps surprising the audience and gives much more than they expected. The characters she creates and the situations she puts them in are bizarrely funny. The visual ingenuity in costumes, art direction and makeup proves “Dead Lover” a singular and strange vision. Premiering in Sundance’s Midnight section before going on to play Rotterdam and other festivals, the unique film should garner a small but fervent audience.Glowicki’s peculiar tale starts with the introduction of its main character, whom the filmmaker plays hers...
