Despite being pretty much a by-the-numbers thriller, Greta has a certain charm about it. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.

June 28, 2020 | Full Review… It just so happens that Frances recently lost her own mother. Greta is a French-born piano teacher and recent widow who lives by herself in a gorgeous old house, playing Chopin and Beethoven. The women settle into a facsimile of a mother-daughter relationship (a dynamic that Jordan has explored in other films, notably " Byzantium "). This is partly due to the strong lead performances from two talented actors. Scott. The small home looks unstuck in time and space, its interior decorated like a rural French cottage and the sound of bustling New York streets curiously dying away within its walls. By A.O.

The filmmaker makes tremendously suffocating use of Greta’s house, which is gloomily tucked between storefronts and apartment buildings. Read Peter Travers' review. Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage 'Greta' gives Isabelle Huppert one hell of a horror-movie role as an unhinged woman stalking Chloë Grace Moretz.