'Went Up the Hill' Review: A Devastating Portrait of Loss and Abuse

As the nursery rhyme goes, "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water." Jack mending his head with the help of vinegar and brown paper are lesser-known details, but the abbreviated version is so deeply ingrained in Western popular culture that you probably read the words in a singsong manner, its rhythmic sweetness softening the blow of the following line: "Jack fell down and broke his crown, and Jill came tumbling after." Samuel Van Grinsven's horror-drama Went Up the Hill, however, there is no veil of optimism. Instead, Jack (Dacre Montgomery) and Jill's (Vicky Krieps) descent into shared grief and spectral trauma paints a grim portrait of the all-consuming nature of loss.
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