The Green Knight‘s
David Lowery has set his next feature with Oscar winner
Tilda Swinton, the anarchic whodunnit and otherworldly psychological thriller,
Death in Her Hands based on American author Ottessa Moshfegh’s 2020 novel.
Swinton plays a woman striving to take control of her own story in the new project from Oscar winning
See-Saw Films. In the Lowery scripted title recent widow Vesta Gul (Tilda Swinton) comes across a chilling handwritten note in the woods near her home: “Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body.” Except there is no body. No blood. Unmoored by the death of her husband and armed only with a camera, her dog Charlie, and her vivid imagination, Vesta becomes obsessed with uncovering Magda’s identity and fate. As her inner world begins to eclipse reality, the mystery of Magda threatens Vesta’s grip on her own life – until, in a spellbinding operatic climax, we realize that Magda’s death may finally allow Vesta to live.
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