“Euphoria” isn’t an easy sell. The drama is essentially about euthanasia, but the marketing is attempting to take an uplifting, life affirming approach which is certainly dicey considering the thorny questions it tackles. But if it gets people out to see a movie carried by two terrific talents, I suppose I can’t argue with that.
Eva Green and Alicia Vikander lead the film playing sisters, when one of them drops the bombshell that she’s stricken terminal cancer, and has decided to end her life. Before she passes away, the woman asks her estranged sister to accompany on her journey to the end, in the hopes they can also make peace. It’s a movie with a lot ambition, and while it doesn’t all quite work, and leaves some of the more interesting thematic threads unexplored, fans of the actresses should likely still give it a peek.
Co-starring Charlotte Rampling, Charles Dance, and Mark Stanley, “Euphoria” opens in Sweden on February 2, 2018. No word yet on a U.S. date. [Indiewire]
