Luce (2019)

Written by CinemaSerf on March 28, 2022

Kelvin Harrison Jnr treads the line between perfect student and perfect demon with some aplomb in this film. Naomi Watts and Tim Roth also provide a credible set of parents facing problems with both their (adopted) son and with their own relationship. Octavia Spencer stands out too - but I have to say, I don't find there to be much cohesion here. Certainly, the threads address issues of racial and gender stereotyping, but they don't intertwine in any particularly convincing way. I had to make quite a number of assumptions to make any sense of the ending - perhaps that was the plan - but it left me feeling a little dissatisfied, even frustrated. Maybe there is to be a "Luce (ends) 2"?