espite the noises at night, the things we might see out of the corner of our eye, and the dark, winding hallways, there’s something comforting about a haunted house: we all have a desire for the past to not be completely gone, and maybe to think that the dead can still make their mark on the living. It’s in just such a haunted house—in this case a large, fog-enshrouded Welsh manor—that Julie Hart (Tilda Swinton) has come to stay with her elderly mother Rosalind (Tilda Swinton, Part II) in Joanna Hogg’s . The reason for the Harts’ visit is twofold: they’ve arrived both to celebrate Rosalind’s upcoming birthday, and also
