Inheritance

2017 • 76 minutes

About this movie

A woman learns her estranged father has died and returns with her brother and new lover to her childhood home of Belize, where she must face her dark past while fighting for intimacy in the present. Some secrets can never stay buried…

Ratings and reviews

Still trying to figure out why I enjoyed this film so much. It dealt with some pretty heavy issues. But while the film certainly stayed with me, I found the subject matter thought-provoking rather than distasteful. Inheritance explores an extreme--what happens to a pair of siblings who suffered child abuse and who did not get any help--and it considers how the effects of that abuse might trickle into their adult relationships and how they would have to work to overcome them. That it dealt with such an extreme made it fairly gripping. It made me feel as though I’d journeyed into a dark underside of the human psyche and reemerged with a more empathetic understanding of what it would mean to be an abuse survivor. I found it intriguing, psychologically rich and arresting. It reminded me of The Celebration, that Vinterberg classic, but with a better setting. The visuals and the score were outstanding and the acting was convincing.