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South Africa, 1901, with the Second Boer War ravaging the country: Brand (Sven Ruygrok), a lowly soldier, has dropped off his severely injured general (Lionel Newton) with a woman, Anna (Michele Burgers) and her daughter Annie (Jamie-Lee Money) to nurse him back to health. But when he comes to pick up the general a week or so later, he's surprised he hasn't improved in health at all, rather the corntrary, and has in fact become delirious. Anna however does everything in her power to keep Brand around, and while he's there he takes a closer look at Annie, a pretty but anemic girl who's apparently allergic to the light of the sun, who mustin't sleep or she'll never wake up again, and who spends most of her waking hours strapped into her chair as she's at times too weak to even sit upright. However, that's only one odd thing about the household, there's also the question how the two women survived on their own at times of war, and quite well I might add, and how come they've got quite so many pieces of man's clothing in their possession? And Brand doesn't even know about the pile of dead soldiers behind their house. However, the more Brand tries to find out the truth, the more gruesome the answers he finds become ...

When it comes to the horror genre, Breathing In is a very unusual movie: Sure, it has all the hallmarks of horror, from mystery to macabre details to references to vampirism, but at the same time shows little interest to go through the motions of your typical genre entry, there's little in terms of spectacle or onscreen violence, there are no jump scares and the film's actually quite dialogue-heavy - and all of this works totally in favour of Breathing In, an ultimately quite compelling meditation on terror, drenched in atmosphere, deliberately slow-moving but carried by a constant deliberate feel on unease. And a strong small ensemble playing fleshed-out characters delivering well-conceived dialogues of course also helps making this one rather fascinating piece of genre cinema.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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