Movies tend to maximalize everything — spectacle, exposition, emoting, violence — so you might be startled by the lick-the-battery charge of a film like Lucy Kerr’s Family Portrait, which carves out a ...

Family Portrait explores familial delusion and connection, with a surreal horror atmosphere. Sound design and well-framed shots contribute to the eerie experience. The film touches on the pandemic and ...

Lucy Kerr’s concise examination of affluent domesticity starts as a deceivingly commonplace collection of social exchanges and devolves into effectively disconcerting territory. Could these images be ...