‘It Is in Us All’ Review: A Magnetic Cosmo Jarvis Anchors an Eerie but Diminishing Exploration of the Death Drive
variety.comJessica Kiang Early on in David Cronenberg’s “Crash,” two characters lock eyes across the crumpled hoods of their cars after a head-on collision.
A strange transference occurs, partly sexual and partly about a different kind of intimacy, one that comes from a shared proximity to death.
Actress Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ intriguing, evocative directorial debut “It Is in Us All” takes a similar moment as the catalyst for a moody, existential drama that may not be about car-crash fetishes but features no less peculiar, no less disturbing psychologies, fused imperfectly together in one violent instant on a lonely Donegal road.The two strangers connected by the lethal accident are Evan (Rhys Mannion), the 17-year-old local who escapes unharmed while his friend is killed, and Hamish (Cosmo Jarvis), the urbane London professional on his way to check out the house bequeathed to him by his late aunt.
Evan will later suggest the crash was predestined, but initially for Hamish, who keeps reducing his injuries to “just a fracture,” and who is not being held responsible for the accident, it is little more than a tragic inconvenience.
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