The Premonition

The Premonition starts out as an interesting thriller in which the loss/abduction of a child is dealt with not only in the traditional way through a detective and the police, but also through the mother’s psyche at the level of her connection with her daughter. The mother is actually the girl’s foster mother and the feeling of “maternal inadequacy” weighs on her all the more in competition with the girl’s biological mother. The deranged biological mother, who wants to steal her daughter from her foster parents, is the driving force of the thriller’s well-made first half. However, the second half, when her friend (who is a reclusive weirdo suffering from the impossibility of having children) takes up the baton, brings us to a resolution of the whole situation that is so simplistic and naïve that the potential of the parapsychology motif is cut off at the knees. (16/10/2020)