Unsane (15)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
star rating 3/5 - worth watching
Summary
Sawyer (Claire Foy) is new in town and acing her targets at the bank where she works. Personally she is aloof, bullish, distant and not liked by her colleagues. Despite her mother’s (Amy Irving) concerns, Sawyer lies and tells her life is good.
After talking to a psychiatrist about a previous episode with a stalker that heralded her move from home, Sawyer unwittingly sections herself and finds the more she protests her sanity, the crazier she sounds. Then, she sees her stalker working as an orderly and administering her drugs. Or did she imagine it?
Review by Jason Day
Filmed entirely on an iPhone 7+, director/writer/editor Soderbergh (although he uses a range of pseudonyms to cover his multiple roles) hits the filmic nail squarely on the head in terms of style and technique with this admittedly cliched thriller.
Imitating the same type of bulging-face close-ups you get when using smartphone cameras, Unsane has the accurate feel of an extended FaceTime or Skype chat.
It fails to live up to the interesting premise and particularly the misleading trailers, as any pretence of playing with the idea of mystery evaporates within the first 30 minutes.
Claire Foy (Queen Elizabeth II in TV's The Crown) none the less expertly holds this together as the most repulsive, yet riveting, damsel in distress the movies have seen in a long time.
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Cast & credits
1hr 38 mins. Extension 765/New Regency Pictures/Regency Enterprises.
Producer: Joseph Malloch.
Writers: Jonathan Bernstein, James Greer.
Camera: Steven Soderbergh (as Peter Andrews).
Sets: April Lasky.
Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple, Sarah Stiles, Amy Irving, Raúl Castillo, Colin Woodell, Zach Cherry
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