AFM Hidden Gem: ‘Went Up the Hill’ Uses a Ghost Story to Examine Trauma and Grief

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• Stranger Things star Dacre Montgomery and Vicky Krieps (Old, Phantom Thread) deliver spectacularly understated performances, using separate scents to trigger emotional shifts as they embody the same characters.
• The film transforms what could have been sensationalist schlock into a nuanced study of trauma and grief, with a deeply uncomfortable, not-quite-incestuous sexual encounter that adds to the emotional complexity.