However, this plan has a snag: Daphne is a tad unstable, and the only way to gain entry to the estate is to play a game that they have been playing since childhood. Their intent is to search the palatial manor for a safe that houses thousands of dollars in cash, and then use that money to pay back the drug dealer for the lost product that the police seized. When a drug opportunity goes south and the police show up at their apartment, Petula (Imogen Waterhouse) and Tilda (Sarah Hay) escape and head to the home of their childhood friend and heiress, Daphne (Madeline Brewer). And as a lifelong horror nerd, it’s something that intrigued me. Sure, it’s a little more violent and murderous than the March house, but that’s part of the charm, too. In her film, Mitzi Peirone creates a similar space for her trio of characters. It’s a space where they can simply exist. They are loud and boisterous and free from societal constraints. The March sisters create a space where they can be completely themselves. It was only later when I saw Greta Gerwig’s phenomenal adaptation of Little Women that I made the connection and figured it out. It was something I couldn’t quite define, but it made me comfortable. ![]() But there was something else about it that really struck me. The colors, the story, the bizarreness of it all was right up my alley. I first saw Braid (aka Dying to Play) at the North Bend Film Festival in 2018.
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