Lyvia’s House:
Love and Revenge Set in a Walnut Orchard
A Get Out-meets-Twin Peaks New Indie Thriller
After novelist Patricia V. Davis relocated to Sutter County, California, where her husband’s family has owned and operated a rice farm since the 1800s, she fell in love with both the beauty of the area and the people who live there, but was struck by her discovery of brutal murders that had been perpetuated in orchards not far from her new rural home. The terrible incident inspired her to write a screenplay, the romantic psychological thriller, Lyvia’s House.
Lyvia’s House follows Tara, a young journalist who has recently transplanted with her new lover from the lavish milieu where she was raised, to the beautiful but bucolic home of a missing Italian artist named Lyvia. Town talk of the lovely but reclusive Lyvia is dismissive, even mocking, but Tara soon begins to wonder if the artist’s disappearance is somehow connected to murders that took place in the area twenty years earlier. As Tara sees and hears things that seem more and more irrational, she begins to doubt her own sanity. But is she truly experiencing a dissolving sense of reality, or is she simply unaware of the tortured relationships of those surrounding her?
Directed by Greek filmmaker Niko Volonakis, with cinematography by Sacramento-based Cody Martin, Lyvia’s House has garnered several festival awards thus far. Positive reviews are coming in from test audiences and festival attendees alike, who are being kept on the edge of their seats by the slow-building, suspenseful arc of the beautiful young couple at the center of the tale, and the mystical elusiveness of the girl in the painting, Lyvia. The haunting score, the intriguing easter eggs, the settings, the subtle social implications, all add layers to the narrative. In particular, Lyvia’s faux finish masks on the walls of her former home are an omen that folks in River Oaks are not what they appear in this
gaslight-glimpse into the surreal.
This romantic psychological thriller is making the rounds at film festivals world-wide. With a mind-blowing screenplay, cinematic settings, and fantastic talent, we’ve created a dynamic, revenue-generating movie. Filmed on location in northern California and southern Nevada. Sales/distribution inquiries, contact Nicholas Levis at Brand Cinema: nl@brandcinema.com
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