The #MeToo-inflected folk-horror film 'Men' raises many questions, and the director and stars have only some of the answers.
Alex Garland and Jessie Buckley discuss their collaboration on the folk-horror film ‘Men,’ which has plenty of provocative things to say about relationships between men and women.“There’s a fable quality to the film,” Buckley says. “It’s like a kind of fairy tale.”
In the film’s final sequence, Harper, having been thwarted in her attempt to escape from the cottage, finds herself menaced by the various figures who have stalked and gaslit her throughout the film, each being birthed out of another in a graphic and stomach-churning orgy of David Cronenberg-style body horror.
“It was quite important that Jessie’s character does not actually know what happened to him,” Garland says. “So because the character doesn’t have a definitive answer to that, I never had one.”Jessie Buckley goes up against a multitasking Rory Kinnear in ‘Men,’ the latest mind-bender from the director of ‘Ex Machina’ and ‘Annihilation.’
For Kinnear, shooting the final sequence was deeply unpleasant. “It was like a week and a half of night shoots, and you’re cold and covered in goo, so you knew you might as well commit to it wholeheartedly,” the actor says. “I wanted to make sure that every time a new character emerged, they had a new attitude and had a need for something from Harper. Each character was nonverbally vocalizing this primal need.
Just before the end credits roll, the film’s title finally appears onscreen in what Garland intended as a kind of dark punch line.
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