The final analysis QM, I Think I Call Her QM, which is located in the scientific world, concerns the abyss-like depths of the human psyche. The main figures are the eccentric psychiatrist Ruth Fielding and QM, a clay-smeared creature the doctor finds under her bed one day. The “Queen of Mud” is the artist’s alter ego, a figure as archaic as it is utopian and which is reminiscent of pre-Christian myths as much as aliens from science fiction. Ruth Fielding decides to observe and study the strange being in the cellar of her claustrophobically shut-up house in Manhattan. In a moment of inattention, QM flees and the psychiatrist remains behind with an unsolved riddle. In this film, Sidén superimposes genres – cinematographic techniques of narration, relationship dramas (between mother and daughter), detective stories, the destiny of women and elements of horror and unease found in Alfred Hitchcock’s work. The real location of the film is the vast territory of the mind.

Brigitte Huck, 2005 (translation: Tim Sharp)