Jordan casts a spell with wicked thriller

No tired pastiche or retro-baiting homage, Greta is a deliciously nasty romp, built around perverse maternal obsessions, with dialogue as arched as a vamp’s eyebrow

Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert in Greta

Cinema

Greta: Directed by Neil Jordan, Nationwide, 15A,Rating:****

Loro: Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, Nationwide, 18,Rating:**

After 30 years and 18 films, you think we’d know Neil Jordan by now. The writer and director has never shied away from exploring his personal fascinations through his films; tortured relationships, sexual transgression, physical transformation and the cracks between reality and fairytales.

Then he goes and makes Greta – his first film in seven years – a ...