Elyse

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Elyse

2020

1h 35m

Drama

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Elyse (Lisa Pepper) languidly meanders out of a cold, concrete, designer house mirroring a mausoleum, externalizing the spirit of her dead son, Cody. She returns home disoriented, unwilling to join the family dinner, misconceives the gathering as a threat to her private life, and is unwarrantedly infuriated with her egocentric mother, Goldie, and her devoted husband, Steven. In a psychotic blackout, Elyse commits vehicular manslaughter of her son and his nanny, Julia. Elyse isn't the only victim; her delusional thinking, narcissism, and violence annihilate her husband. Memory and hallucination intertwine to expose a history of trauma, revealing the truth: Elyse is Catatonic and institutionalized in a State Hospital. Elyse's recovery is reliant on the dissolution of her marriage, the restoration of the relationship with her mother, and the mutual absolution with the nanny's daughter, Carmen. It's the care from Dr. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) and the unconditional love from her nurse, David, that promise Elyse a new life.

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

05/25/2021

2/5

The tonal shifts flicker like a strobe light, while the mannered use of black and white, with a later shift to full colour, comes across as pretentious and literal rather than evocative of the character's inner state.

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Richard Roeper

Chicago Sun-Times

12/04/2020

1.5/4

You'll hear the warning bells signifying a Category 5 Pretentiousness Alert right from the start of the ponderous and stiff psychological drama "Elyse," and it's not a false alarm.

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Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

12/03/2020

Unconvincing on every level.

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Monique Jones

Common Sense Media

12/16/2020

3/5

Interesting take on psychological drama; drinking, language.

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Wade Major

FilmWeek (LAist)

12/08/2020

Anthony Hopkins is really the best thing about it... He's worth watching.

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Alain E

@AlainE Jun 21

I tolerated ten minutes of this awful exercise about depression. I would have liked to see how they deal with ECT, but if I watch anymore I would need antidepressants myself. The first part is mostly black and white (except a red kid’s bicycle), because I assume the director thinks color equals happiness. The heroine is the wife in an affluent household and apparently she is allowed to roam the city without anyone knowing where she is going. Just hope for the best! The same way they made this movie. Was Anthony Hopkins clinically depressed when he accepted the part? I hope he never waches it and starts feeling better.

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Leo B

@RT81791257 08/30/2024

It was a promissing beginning, but the end was awful. Anthony Hopkins was a good psychiatric in the first part, but whe thought it was a good idea to let the mother override her child. Without that it was clear that she had some mental problems.

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vander a

@RT27493688 04/11/2021

It is past awful. Where did they get these actors? They are the worst actors ever seen. People in soap operas deserve Academy Awards compared to the actors in this movie. You've got to assume the director is a relation of some sort to Anthony Hopkins because there's no other reason on this earth why he would be in should an awful movie; story, script, dialogue, acting. It's hard to list whose acting is worse but Elyse and her husband both compete for worst actor and I think he wins. It's too much trouble to look up the relationship of Stella Hopkins to Anthony Hopkins but no relative deserves to ruin a career.

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12/06/2020

This movie is a slog with a ridiculous premise. It was predictable and painful to watch. I want my 90 minutes back.

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12/05/2020

Don't bother. It made me sad to see Anthony Hopkins in such a poor movie.

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Elyse (Lisa Pepper) languidly meanders out of a cold, concrete, designer house mirroring a mausoleum, externalizing the spirit of her dead son, Cody. She returns home disoriented, unwilling to join the family dinner, misconceives the gathering as a threat to her private life, and is unwarrantedly infuriated with her egocentric mother, Goldie, and her devoted husband, Steven. In a psychotic blackout, Elyse commits vehicular manslaughter of her son and his nanny, Julia. Elyse isn't the only victim; her delusional thinking, narcissism, and violence annihilate her husband. Memory and hallucination intertwine to expose a history of trauma, revealing the truth: Elyse is Catatonic and institutionalized in a State Hospital. Elyse's recovery is reliant on the dissolution of her marriage, the restoration of the relationship with her mother, and the mutual absolution with the nanny's daughter, Carmen. It's the care from Dr. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) and the unconditional love from her nurse, David, that promise Elyse a new life.

Director: Stella Hopkins
Producer: Anthony Hopkins, Stella Hopkins, Tara Arroyave, Aaron Tucker
Screenwriter: Stella Hopkins, Audrey Arkins
Distributor: Gravitas Ventures
Production Co: Margam Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 4, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 4, 2020
Runtime: 1h 35m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)