Visionary director Lucile Hadžihalilović's first English-language movie is a transfixing, hallucinatory adaptation of Brian Caitling's acclaimed novel. Isolated in a dark house with barely any furniture, Albert (Paul Hilton) is employed as guardian to Mia (Romane Hemelaers), a strange young girl with even stranger teeth. Albert takes his instructions in nightly telephone calls. Is this some great dental experiment, or something even weirder? As much psychological drama as body horror, Earwig takes place in its own world evoked by Jonathan Ricquebourg’s stylised cinematography and a haunting minimalist score by Augustin Viard and Warren Ellis.