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After their parents (Robert Tovey, Irene Wilson) have died in a fire, Dion (Barney Jones) and his teenaged sister Nia (Daisie Boyes) move into a new house in the coutnry and try to turn a new leaf. And even if they bicker a lot, Dion and Nia dearly love one another, so they should make good progress. Only, after a while, Dion starts to see things, things that shouldn't be there ... until one day he passes out and when he comes to, he's still in the same house, instead there's a woman he has never seen before, Dr. Menos (Marielle Clare), who claims Nia has died in the fire with his parents and she's his live-in therapist to help him overcome the trauma. This only lasts for a few minutes before he wakes up in his "real" world again - where Nia has gotten pretty worried about him so she has invited ... Dr. Menos of all people ... and it's back to the world without Nia where Dr. Menos tries her best to convince him to let go of Nia. Problem is, this time around there's no waking up to the other reality, filling him with more and more despair, while Dr. Menos slowly convinces him that the other reality was just his way to handle grief - or rather repress it, really. It's only when Dr. Menos hypnotizes him that he accidently sends him back to the other world, where he finds out the good doctor is actually his wife and Nia their daughter - and when Dr. Menos wakes him from hypnosis Dion is less sure about anything than ever ...

The Reflected Self is a very unusual movie, a deliberately slow-moving esoteric drama that nevertheless never loses steam, it's a well-structured film that nevertheless feels like a jigsaw puzzle, and a film that constantly twists and turns and is thus full of surprises, but without ever unnecessarily confuse its audience. And its mix of heartfelt drama and haunted house thriller weirdly enough makes perfect sense. And add to this an atmosphere-heavy directorial effort that nevertheless never smothers its story or actors, and an uniformly strong cast, and you've got yourself an as mentioned unusual but also really worthwhile movie.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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