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Open up.
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
Swallow
2019 Directed by Carlo Mirabella-Davis
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Joe Wright Haley Bennett Eric Tavitian Sam Bisbee David Boies III Mollye Asher Mynette Louie Julie Parker Benello Frédéric Fiore Pierre Mazars Yohann Comte Carole Baraton Constantin Briest David Stone Katy Drake Bettner
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Saplantı
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Intense violence and sexual transgression Moving relationship stories emotional, emotion, sad, drama or illness marriage, drama, family, emotional or emotion scary, horror, creepy, supernatural or frighten thriller, psychological, suspense, twist or disturbing emotional, emotion, family, moving or feelings Show All…
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Fantastic debut by Carlo Mirabella-Davis. With both writing and directing, he really understands how to keep an audience enrapt. The film goes to unexpected places and tackles some heavy subjects. I woke up this morning thinking about it.
And honestly, I can't remember cringing so hard while watching a film. And I'm referring to the good cringe. I would say that the squeamish should beware however anybody would be squeamish when it comes to these some of these scenes.
Halley Bennet truly owns this role. Now I'm a fan.
Beautifully shot by Katelin Arizmendi (Cam) on Arri Amira with Zeiss Master Prime Lenses and color graded by Sam Daley (Florida Project).
This will be on my top ten of 2020. Guaranteed.
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There isn't a single moment of this movie when I wasn't deeply uncomfortable. Highly recommended.
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women be eating!!!!
eating away at their own bodily autonomy by internalizing the roles being projected on them
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There’s something fitting about the fact that Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ “Swallow” — a provocative and frequently brilliant thriller about the patriarchal control over female bodies — is set in a purgatorial stretch of upstate New York that’s roughly equidistant from both Jeanne Dielman’s home at 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, and the arid San Fernando Valley that almost suffocates Carol White to death in “Safe.” While he might not possess Chantal Akerman’s visionary patience, or exhibit Todd Haynes’ singular talent for mining horror from metaphor, Mirabella-Davis has crafted a sharp and surprising modern fable around a woman whose environment has been weaponized against her since birth.
The submissive but subtly demented housewife of a standard-issue Patrick Bateman wannabe (Austin Stowell), Hunter…
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sitting on a motel floor munching on some dirt & watching tv. that’s some real hot girl shit.
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I can overlook her casually eating a battery but I draw the line at that fucking wig
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true unhappiness cannot be fully repressed. it physically manifests, no matter how glossy the plasticine smile, how pristine the glass house. sometimes you need tangible proof that your pain isn’t just in your head.
a hybrid of domestic horror and psychological drama, as well as an ode to the sacred privacy of bathrooms, Swallow centers on newlywed and newly pregnant housewife Hunter (haley bennett). she lives in an immaculate upstate new york estate with her boring rich husband, where she’s stifled by her overbearing in-laws and constant domestic duties. despite the fact that she has everything society tells her she should want, she’s deeply unfulfilled. this second-wave “problem that has no name” eventually transforms into something that does: pica, an…
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I hated her husband within the first two minutes of this, and then he kept getting worse. Take care of your own ties, you lazy fuck.
Instead of eating it she should have shoved that pushpin in his dick. And she should have shoved another pushpin in the dick of that dude guilting women into hugging him. What the hell was that?!
It's a beautifully shot movie and Haley Bennett delivered a wonderful performance here, she should be in more movies!
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REALLY bummed i never came around to this. while i think the way it goes about these themes is pretty clever, i didn’t really get much out of the film itself other than an “oh, neat” and some really intense squirms. said “ouch” out loud once or twice which is really embarrassing on my part. it had all the right ingredients, thumbtacks and all, but i didn’t taste a thing.
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