Paxton opts for a slow-burn approach, which means that things don't get really freaky (or gross) until well into the third act. Deciding that her body no longer 'belongs' to her, Betsy stops eating and claims she's beholden to some quasi-religious higher power. But it's Betsy (Jessica Alexander) who's mum's biggest headache. The younger girl (Ruby Stokes) starts acting out-partying too much experimenting with the opposite sex-like a typical adolescent. THE BANQUET-Ruth Paxton's creepy psychodrama stars Sienna Guillory (very good) as a still-grieving widow raising two troubled-and increasingly vexing-teenage daughters. NEW TO STREAMERS, HOME VIDEO (AND IN THEATERS):
