SALT ALONG THE TONGUE
UK PREMIERE - Discovery SCREEN Three
Director: Parish Malfitano. Stars: Laneikka Denne, Dina Panozzo, Caroline Levien, Mayu Iwasaki. Australia 2024. 113 mins.
After her mother dies, Mattia moves in with her estranged aunt, her mother's identical twin. But from beyond the grave, Mattia's mother possesses her daughter to protect her from a malevolent spirit, using food as a gateway. Director Parish Malfitano extends the promise of his striking debut, BLOODSHOT HEART, with a plunge into an eerily stylised, dreamlike play of metamorphic identities situated in an all-female community of family and friends. Love and hate, good and evil, death and birth, threat and redemption: everything floats mysteriously in a uniquely different horror, mixing witchery, spirit possession and exorcism with sheer cinematic poetry.
