That Cold Day in the Park
“How far will a woman go?”
Frances Austen, whose well-appointed apartment overlooks a park in Vancouver, one cold day, observes a rain-soaked young man on a park bench whom she assumes is homeless. Hoping to repress her loneliness, Frances invites ‘the boy’ inside her home to get warm and ends up encouraging him to stay. The young man accepts her every hospitality—food, clothes, profuse conversation, and a room of his own. Little does she realize that her guest is not the person he appears to be. Nor, for that matter, is Frances the woman that she appears to be.
A chillingly intimate portrait of isolation and obsession. This film wraps you in a suffocating atmosphere, where polite gestures mask dark intentions and the veneer of normalcy cracks to reveal something deeply unsettling beneath.
