Nicole Kidmanis keeping her thriller streak alive with the firstHollandtrailer. The upcoming film, which hails fromFreshdirector Mimi Cave, stars Kidman as a teacher in the titular Michigan town whose concerns about her husband hiding secrets lead to her discovering something far bigger is going on. Alongside Kidman, the ensembleHollandcast includesLa Máquina’s Gael García Bernal,Deadpool & Wolverine’s Matthew Macfayden,A Haunting in Venice’s Jude HIll andSaturday Night’s Rachel Sennott.
In anticipation of the movie’s South by Southwest Film Festival premiere,Prime Videohas unveiled the officialHollandtrailer. The video opens with Kidman introducing audiences to the idyllic titular town, where she works as a teacher and her husband as the local preacher, and the local aesthetic is that of the same-named country. Things then begin to turn suspenseful when her husband says he has to go on a business trip,leading to her and Bernal’s Dave joining together for an investigation, which the footage teases has something to do with the town itself. Check out the trailer below:
It Looks To Continue A Specific Genre Trend
While it certainly doesn’t give the entire movie away, theHollandtrailer does reveal a surprisingly fair amount of what to expect from the thriller. For starters,it really seems to be pointing to Macfayden’s Fred as being some kind of malevolent manipulator, be it his dialogue about creating a story and making it stick, or his seemingly having some kind of control over the titular town. Additionally, the footage indicates Bernal’s character may be one of the few male characters in support of Nancy’s investigation, as he enjoys “good mysteries.”
Ultimately, it’s the town that looks to be one of the more mysterious elements of theHollandtrailer. Beyond Fred’s suspicious behavior,a brief snippet of the trailer also shows Kidman’s character running away down her town’s main street as people suddenly pop into existence, while another shot sees her in a kaleidoscopic-type environment in the sky above the city. Though these scenes could be shown as those of nightmare scenes, it also seems possible there is a sci-fi twist in store for the film.
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Whatever the answer may be, what theHollandtrailer does make clear isit’s continuing a specific thriller trend of female-fronted stories. Ranging from Cave’s own cannibal thrillerFreshto Olivia Wilde’sDon’t Worry Darlingandthe recently acclaimedCompanion, more and more filmmakers are using the genre to create important commentary of various female perspectives. Kidman herself has explored this subgenre on multiple occasions, including herStepford Wivesremake and HBO’sBig Little Lies.
Our Take On The Holland Trailer
Hopefully A Better Version Of A Recent Misfire
Though the actual answers to its mystery may end up being entirely different, it’s hard to deny that theHollandtrailer is already showing a variety of similarities tothe aforementionedDon’t Worry Darling, a movie which became an unsurprising misfire for Wilde following its infamous production troubles. However, with Cave having thoroughly impressed me with her debut inFreshand the movie looking to have some twisty storytelling in store, I hope that its SXSW premiere brings with it positive reviews.
