Notkin spills — "had been like something right out…"
had been like something right out of the Auteur’s most ghastly and unresolvable proto-incestuous disaster films, e.g. The Night Wears a Sombrero, Dial C for Concupiscence, and The Unfortunate Case of Me
Context
Life imitating the filmography: Notkin can only describe Joelle's Thanksgiving deforming trauma by genre-tagging it to JOI's catalogue — three titles cited as the reference class for the "ghastly and unresolvable" proto-incestuous kind. The films have become the interpretive frame for the biographical catastrophe of their own lead actress; even the family horror arrives pre-formatted as JOI cinema.