Synopsis
Following the death of her mother, a young woman returns home to Niagara Falls and becomes entangled in the memory of a kidnapping she claims to have witnessed as a child.
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Cast
- Tuppence MiddletonAbby
- Hannah GrossLaure
- David CronenbergWalter
- Andy McQueenSingh
- Noah ReidMarcus
- Dan LettRandy
- Aaron PooleThe One-Eyed Man
- Eric JohnsonCharlie Lake
- Marie-Josée CrozeMrs. Moulin
- Paulino NunesMr. Moulin
Recommandations
- 88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Clifton Hill becomes just as thrilling and disturbing as its titular strip of haunted houses and fading-fast motels. - 75
Original-Cin
Middleton plays Abby with a pleasing note of vulnerability that is often supplanted by a nagging anticipation she’ll tip off the edge. She and Gross have smooth chemistry as estranged sisters. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Where Disappearance at Clifton Hill really excels is in exploring the visual and sonic textures of a decaying resort, and in hailing the plucky resourcefulness of a broken woman, trying to piece her memories — and maybe herself — back together. - 67
The Film Stage
This is a standard unsolved mystery drama, the type that would be quite at home on a small-screen police procedural. The setting certainly adds to its interest, but even when the boy’s fate is (seemingly) explained, it is difficult to care. - 63
Slant Magazine
What distinguishes the film from much of its ilk is Albert Shin’s ongoing taste for peculiar and unsettling details. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
But for all its vividly detailed eccentricity, the movie, like Abby, connects the dots rather too easily. As Clifton Hill digs deeper into exceedingly sordid stuff, it doesn't dish up the kind of aha moments or chilling frissons that would lift the story from clever contrivance — until a final, delicious twist pulls the rug out from under this richly atmospheric but not always convincing tale. - 60
The New York Times
For patient or forgiving fans of idiosyncratic thrillers, “Disappearance” may deliver satisfactory spills and chills. - 50
The Playlist
Tonally confusing ... For all its strange and specific flavor, "Clifton Hill" is too tame and tepid to truly work as weird noir.
