Dead and dying animals – beavers and raccoons; it doesn’t get homier – murder and suicide and ghosts and dreams and violence and bent cops and sex and drugs and rock. It all adds up to – well, the problem is that it doesn’t actually add up. Ice Blue is like a jigsaw puzzle with a few missing pieces that have been replaced with some from other puzzles. Filmed in small-town Alberta by first-time feature director Sandi Somers, the film has a wonderful sense of eeriness and dread. Most screenwriters would be content with this much mystery – oh, did I mention Arielle’s weird, watery dreams?

Source: National Post May 04, 2018 19:00 UTC