Genre: Thriller
Runtime: 98 minutes
Year: 2018
Starring: Claire Foy, Jay Pharaoh, Juno Temple, Joshua Leonard, Sarah Stiles, Amy Irving, Matt Damon
Description: A young woman (Claire Foy) is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear--but is it real or a product of her delusion?
Review: In 2013, director Steven Soderbergh announced his retirement and become a painter. But that didn’t last long. First with the TV-show “The Knick”. He realized that film making is what he loves most. Even before he returned with “Logan Lucky”, he announced the movie “Unsane”, which he filmed in secret.
Not only did he film it in secret, he did it within a month in 2017. Soderbergh filmed the entire movie with an iPhone 7 Plus in 4k. You would think that this film would have terrible quality, but that’s not really true. It’s visible in a few moments, but overall this way of filming adds to the realistic and raw feel of the film.
Sawyer Valentini tries to start a new life, with a new job in a new city. But the trauma of the stalker in her past life, still haunts her. So she talks to a therapist. Sawyer has to fill in some standard forms. And before she knows it, she is committed to a mental institution. Sawyer goes through a personal hell, between people who are completely mad and people who are, like her, healthy. And one of the nurses seems to be her stalker. Or is it just in her head?
Soderbergh leaves it to question for a long time, if Sawyer is really losing her mind or if she is sane. We find out the truth, but I think they should’ve waited later in the film. The film still does have some elements of surprise, things you didn’t see coming.
“Unsane” is a strong thriller, where you constantly have that realistic feel where it could happen to you too. Claire Foy is really good in her role, she carries this film.
Rating: 3,5 / 5
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