The Lost Children

A father tenderly carries his young daughter through a darkened house and tucks her into bed. The sweet parental gesture soon morphs into confusion and terror when the girl wakes to discover that she and her three siblings have been mysteriously abandoned in the forest. The resourceful kids ration food and play hide-and-seek until they can find a way home – but when things start to go to bump in the night, the boundary between reality and the paranormal becomes blurred. Full of sly Lynchian imagery, Michèle Jacob’s debut feature is a suspenseful, visually inventive fairy-tale full of sublimated trauma and simmering unease, bolstered by a remarkable quartet of child performances.