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    <em>Greta </em>Is a Twisted, Urban Fairy Tale About Stalking

    Watching Isabelle Huppert transform from a kindly older widow into a terrifying villain is worth the price of admission.
    by David Sims Mar 01, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Focus Features

    The abode of Greta Hideg (played by Isabelle Huppert), the kindly seeming French widow at the heart of the new film , is a Brooklyn real-estate agent’s dream. Tucked away in a little alley, recessed behind the other buildings, and complete with a piano and a lovely kitchen, it’s like something out of an urban fairy tale—which is, indeed, exactly what is. But the movie isn’t one of those warm and fuzzy stories in which everyoneis more of a modern Hansel and Gretel, and Greta’s place is the gingerbread house: inviting on the outside and filled with all sorts of strange terrors on the inside.

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