On screen, the British actress Rebecca Hall has portrayed many self-possessed yet vulnerable characters, a particular duality that she’s mastered. In the fantastic “Christine” from 2016, she played a principled TV reporter who becomes increasingly unstable as she battles depression and media sensationalism. In 2017’s “Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman,” she’s a confident wife who consents to her husband’s affair, only to fall in love with the other woman. 

In “Resurrection,” opening at the IFC Film Center on Friday, Ms. Hall plays a self-assured, successful, professional woman named Margaret who has a past that haunts and, eventually, catches up with her. This past involves an older man, David (Tim Roth), whom she had a relationship with when she was 18. In a stunning scene about 30 minutes into the film, she relates what transpired between the two, a tale of grooming, abuse, and menticide.