A young man returns home from college during a holiday break to visit his widowed mother. Along the way, he meets an attractive woman and they hit it off so well during the return trip that she accepts an invitation from him to stay at his Mother’s house during his stay. But his mother is not pleased with this surprise as she has rather strong feelings for her own son and desires to keep him all for herself.
There are certain interesting tendencies at play here, but mostly this is a pretty straightforward and unimaginative effort. The story is somewhat unusual in content and tone, but the subtext is pretty blunt without needing to be and frankly, nothing too interesting happens (this point could be argued I suppose, but suffice to say that, as the title may imply, this is one of “those” films and beyond that fact does nothing in particular with the subject matter).
Still, there are some signs of visual acuity from the director. In particular, Blom is fairly adept at using expressive close-ups and there are a few scenes where the lighting is used pretty well. Otherwise, I should think this is mostly of historical interest.
