Ellen then realises why Liz looks so familiar: she once taught her potential daughter-in-law in college, recalling how she was \u2018radical in her ideology\u2019. As a chilling rendition of \u2018Don\u2019t Dream It\u2019s Over\u2019 kicks in, Liz\u2019s bizarre influence over the family grows tighter. \u2018I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a coincidence that she\u2019s attached herself to Josh,\u2019 the matriarch tells her husband, neatly juxtaposed with Birdie bonding with Liz over the cheerful lifecycle of mould: \u2018It\u2019s growing a new host to attach itself to, that\u2019s how it blossoms and infects the entire ecosystem,\u2019 she says. Liz is intrigued.<\/p>\n
Capote Vs The Swans star Diane Lane plays a mother whose family is infiltrated by a former college pupil in Anniversary<\/p>\n
Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
But it seems that the rot infecting the country is far more systemic than mother-in-law issues. The official synopsis for the film, directed by Jan Komasa, describes Anniversary as \u2018a provocative thriller about a very close-knit family that is torn apart as a new movement, \u201cThe Change\u201d, envelops the country.\u2019 A brief glimpse of Liz\u2019s college thesis shows that her own \u2018radical ideology\u2019 might have something to do with this Change, while scenes of police cars driving down suburban streets lined with stars and stripes, clips of brawls at Ted Talk-esque conventions, and Josh\u2019s assertion at family dinner that the world is \u2018dangerous\u2019 all suggest that something very sinister might be brewing. \u2018You have obliterated us,\u2019 Ellen tells Liz towards the end of the trailer, \u2018What more do you want?\u2019 No wonder one commenter called Anniversary \u2018Saltburn with a girl\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ellen then realises why Liz looks so familiar: she once taught her potential daughter-in-law in college, recalling how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,3617,19,17,327,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-11668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-features","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}