Jenifer
Lawrence plays the loving wife to Javier Bardem’s older poet who’s suffering
from writer’s block. While Lawrence works hard at turning their very remote
home into an idyllic setting, or a “paradise” if you will, a mysterious
stranger (Ed Harris) turns up at their door, followed closely by his wife
(Michelle Pfeiffer), both of whom Bardem’s seemingly-oblivious character
welcomes with open arms - despite his wife’s understandable protests. But as more guests inexplicably begin to swarm Lawrence’s home, the film descends into brutal and unforgiving
chaos that is as arresting as it is repellent.
