“...a hybrid vision of mythic fear and youthful melancholy. Perry Blackshear is a filmmaker to follow.”
- Cahiers du Cinéma
THE SIREN
Tom rents out a small and isolated lakehouse, one marked by a local legend of a woman who, after drowning, haunts the surrounding woods and drowns anyone she encounters. That myth particularly intrigues Tom’s new neighbor, Al, who’s mourning the recent death of his husband. Starting off rather friendly, Tom and Al’s rapport slowly changes as the former befriends a mysterious woman named Nina, for whom Al can’t shake his negative suspicions.
Equal parts supernatural romance and intimate tragedy, The Rusalka flips the conventions of starcrossed soulmates fiction into a lyrical and genre infused look at the darker side of love. It is a story of two people who love each other, but struggle with being together because of what they are. And it is about the amorality, divinity, and terror of love.
