Abrahamson pulls off a Little feat

The Little Stranger is a captivating Gothic mystery adapted from Sarah Waters’s acclaimed novel as a claustrophobic haunted house movie with a devious shudder in every scene

Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson in The Little Stranger

Cinema

The Little Stranger: Directed by Lenny Abrahamson, Nationwide, 15A,Rating:*****

Faces Places: Directed by Agnès Varda and JR, Selected, PG,Rating:****

Lenny Abrahamson charts the decline of the British aristocracy after WWII in The Little Stranger, a captivating Gothic mystery adapted from Sarah Waters’s acclaimed novel as a claustrophobic haunted house movie with a devious shudder in every scene. Thoughtful, sparing and elegantly controlled, it is Abrahamson’s most assured and mature work yet and ...