Author: Stefan Pape

There’s something about having an unreliable protagonist which breeds such engaging cinema. Dating back to Nikolai Gogol’s Diary of a Madman, it’s adopting the perspective of an unpredictable narrator, allowing the viewer to question what it is they’re seeing – and it’s here Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane comes into its own. With strong acting performances brining this tale to the life, it does beg the question – why did this esteemed filmmaker shoot this movie on an iPhone and thus undermine and cheapen his own storytelling credentials?

Claire Foy plays Sawyer Valentini, the victim of a stalker, who moved state and changed jobs in a bid to start again, away from her perpetrator’s unrelenting behaviour. Though she can’t escape him psychologically, and so she heads to a nearby hospital to talk a support group worker, and when asked if she ever feels suicidal,...