theothers



	�THE OTHERS� is one of the cleverest and most original movies I�ve seen all year, and while the pace is initially slower than the camel train to Timbuktu, once upper crust Nicole Kidman fears that there are some people lurking in her mansion in the country (eerily shot as this film was in deepest, loneliest Jersey), the cold, dimly-lit atmosphere bears suspense so subtle it�s at its most effective. Set during the war, �single mother� Nicole cares for her two children alone with some servants to help� her husband still unheard-of from the war in which he went to fight. One snag is that her kids cannot under any circumstance be subjected to natural daylight or they�ll die, so the rule-of-thumb that every door must be shut and locked behind the person using it reigns supreme to reduce the possibility of them, er, dying. But the chilling, grandiose twist at the end is irony epitomised� the truth being that it is Nicole (at her most sophisticated, flustered and sexy) and her children who are the unwanted guests in the house. Yep, Nicole is a kiddy killer! Like �The Sixth Sense� that scared before, �The Others� is genius storytelling at its bewildering best. (STEVE RUDD)

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