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If you feel like you've inadvertently stumbled into someone else's dream while you're watching The Caterpillar Wish, it's precisely because writer-director Sandra Sciberras intended it that way. It's her dream.
The film tells its story at a leisurely pace, but inexplicably manages to build and execute tension as the characters begin to pick at the scabs of old wounds - which might result in truths that are easier not to face.
It's almost the same feeling of creeping dread you get from being trapped in one of those nightmares where you can't run away. The film follows single mother Susan, and her daughter Emily as the latter begins to search for her father - and uncover potentially-ugly town secrets in the process.
The Caterpillar Wish was born of two visions Sciberras encountered while slumbering and has held on to ever since; it is filled with much starkly evocative imagery.
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