A closeup of The Turning's poster at Cineplex Saint John.
Italian-Canadian filmmaker, photographer and illustrator Floria Sigismondi, (The Runaways), a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design, brings her dark, pseudo-disturbing aesthetic to the Stephen Spielberg-produced adaptation of Henry James’ 1897 novella, The Turning of the Screw.
Set in the Nineties, newly certified nanny Kate, (Mackenzie Davis, Halt and Catch Fire) is hired by the uncle of blue-blooded orphans Miles, (Finn Wolfhard, Stranger Things) and Flora, (Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project) to care for the children after the deaths of their parents.
However, once Kate moves into the Maine countryside estate she discovers the children and the house are harbouring dark secrets, exacerbated by the mysterious departure of their previous nanny.
Renown for her music videos with David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, The White Stripes, Justin Timberlake, Rita Chiarelli and The Tea Party, Sigismondi is no stranger teasing to the surface the darkness and ambiguity of one of the most analysed ghost stories in literature.
The Turning opens in theatres Friday.
