Adapted from the 1980 Fay Weldon novel about a young architect who happens upon some witchery in the Irish countryside.
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British director Nicholas Roeg's first film in 15 years is a supernatural drama set amidst the rolling hills of the Irish countryside. Needing to escape the city and her demanding boss Lars (Donald Sutherland), young architect Liffrey (Kelly Reilly) and boyfriend Richard (Oscar Pearce) buy a cottage in the Irish hills to restore. The Tucker family, who lived there previously and have now moved to a nearby farm, soon make the couple uneasy, especially mother-of-three daughters Mabs (Miranda Richardson), who can't hide her desire to have a son. The atmosphere takes a turn for the worse when Liffrey announces she's pregnant, mainly because Mabs's mother Molly (Rita Tushingham) has been trying, through use of the black arts, to finally have her own grandson. Isolated in her pregnancy, Liffrey is soon surrounded by a family convinced that the baby she is carrying rightly belongs to Mabs.
Directed by critically acclaimed filmmaker Nicolas Roeg (DON'T LOOK NOW, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH), PUFFBALL is the chilling yet captivating story of loss, love and lust set against the beautiful backdrop of the Irish countryside. When a young architect (Kelly Reilly MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS, EDEN LAKE) purchases a ruined building in order to develop, she soon discovers its four walls shroud a tragic history. Her feeling on unease escalates when she finds herself pregnant and the locals begin to turn against her and her unborn child...
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