![]() George finds them an old, but oddly charming farmhouse that Catherine can pour her talent and energies into decorating, and he sets up at the college under the watchful eye of his department chair, Floyd DeBeers (F. This means that Catherine must leave her successful career as an art restorationist, something she is clearly not eager to do despite her commitment to supporting George in his career. They are about to move from the heart of Manhattan to a small town in upstate New York so that George, who has just finished his Ph.D., can take a job at a liberal arts college. The film opens with an ambiguous discovery of unseen violence, after which we meet George and Catherine Clare (James Norton and Amana Seyfried), a young married couple with a small daughter named Franny. ![]() Nothing Berman and Pulcini have done before has suggested an interest in horror, but they have clearly internalized the traits of the genre, especially in its Gothic manifestation, which gives Things Heard & Seen its best moments, where the boundaries between the real and the supernatural are blurred, goosing us with suggestion and intimation that strengthens the marital drama at its core. Since then, their career has produce a wide and varied range of feature films (many of which are comedies), documentaries, and episodes of various television series. Such stories were almost always centered around a female protagonist, featured a predatory male villain, and took place in some decaying castle or manor that gave concrete expression to the unburied sins of the past.Īll of those characteristics are in play in Things Heard & Seen, which was adapted and directed by the husband-and-wife filmmaking team of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who first garnered attention in 2003 for American Splendor, an adaptation of Harvey Pekar's graphic novel series starring Paul Giamatti that earned them an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. The Gothic novel, which developed in England in the late 18th century, was the product of a period of great social, cultural, and technological upheaval, which was embodied in the novels' eerie tales of past and present colliding. Things Heard & Seen, which is based the 2016 novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage, is a tale of Gothic Horror 101, in which supernatural manifestations are but a reflection of the real horrors of interpersonal violence and familial breakdown. Stars: Amanda Seyfried (Catherine Clare), James Norton (George Clare), Karen Allen (Mare Laughton), Natalia Dyer (Willis), Rhea Seehorn (Justine Sokolov), Alex Neustaedter (Eddy Lucks), F. Screenplay: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini (based on the novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage) Director: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
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