The perfect Italian hybrid of Dogtooth and 10 Cloverfield Lane, Darkness (original title, Buio) creates an insular world where fiction rules over fact. Stella (Denise Tantucci) and her two younger sisters Luce (Gaia Bocci) and the mute Aria (Olimpia Tosatto) live under their father’s (Valerio Binasco) tyrannical rule. In their countryside home, he has them convinced that the apocalypse has arrived, the sun scalding people’s eyes out and causing their skin and limbs to burn away. The young girls must remain literally and metaphorically in the dark. Read More