The Blackcoat's Daughter (also lightly referred to as February) is a story of loneliness. A story of the lengths one would go in order to deal with and remove that loneliness from their life; it's a story of mental instability.
The film, set in the cold and snowy winter, orientates around two female students that are left behind at their all-girls school during the holiday. One is alone, scared, and very fragile. The other a lying, not-so-great teenager that is probably pregnant.
Kat, the lonely and scared girl, has made a deal with a demon: do as it asks, and she will see her deceased parents again. Meanwhile, a much older female is heading towards the school, her reasoning is unknown for the majority of the film.
The Blackcoat's Daughter is slow, yet far from uninteresting. Its narrative seems so tangled that it easily keeps your mind flowing with ideas of what is actually happening. Are Kat's parents actually dead? Is the demon even real? Who is the older girl, and what are her plans in the area near the school?
It's fairly easy to figure out what is happening as it progresses, given the film provides a fair amount of hints throughout, but it ensures it remains psychological and eerie until those moments. It prides itself on being a film that has the viewer questioning what is true and what is false as it unwinds.
The film perfectly portrays loss and loneliness in a way where it has the viewer feeling those very emotions themselves through its cinematography and choice of near-empty locations. It shows you how Kat sees the world she is living in: empty, cold, relentless.
