Grimmfest 2021
A teenage girl enters a role playing horror game using social media and attracts the attention of an older man.
Schoenbrun's feature debut is a fascinating puzzle box, confident of its intent and increasingly unsettling as it progresses.
The tale is told through a combination of online videos, mainly produced by the two protagonists and some third person observation of their offline irl lives.
Not a film that feels particularly inclined to explain itself, information is provided and its up to the viewer how they interpret it (cue responses of 'pfft, well I could do that at home')
For this viewer it was an absorbing and unsettling meditation on teenage alienation, crisis of identity and cyber grooming, amongst a myriad of other things.
You will likely either love it or hate it,.
A teenage girl enters a role playing horror game using social media and attracts the attention of an older man.
Schoenbrun's feature debut is a fascinating puzzle box, confident of its intent and increasingly unsettling as it progresses.
The tale is told through a combination of online videos, mainly produced by the two protagonists and some third person observation of their offline irl lives.
Not a film that feels particularly inclined to explain itself, information is provided and its up to the viewer how they interpret it (cue responses of 'pfft, well I could do that at home')
For this viewer it was an absorbing and unsettling meditation on teenage alienation, crisis of identity and cyber grooming, amongst a myriad of other things.
You will likely either love it or hate it,.