Film Review – Miller’s Girl

Writer/director Jade Halley Bartlett makes her filmmaking debut with “Miller’s Girl,” and she offers an ambitious tale of seduction and power with the material, which has a distinct theatrical quality to it. The movie examines an unsettling relationship between a high school writing teacher and his top student, who’s quite capable of reaching inside the older man’s mind in an effort to tap into his fantasies. Bartlett isn’t making a thriller with “Miller’s Girl” (which is co-produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg), but something slightly more sinister, toying with the influence of sexuality as it beguiles and destroys in equal measure. The writing stays close to character, generating some powerfully intimate moments, and those highlights are enough to carry a somewhat unsteady picture, but one that offers fascinating sequences of manipulation, finding horror in the hotness of it all. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com