In ‘Resurrection,’ Rebecca Hall Shows Off Her Mastery of Difficult Terrain
Also, Tim Roth gives one of his best performances in years as the controlling psychopath.

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.
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