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Mar 23, 2018 · A stalker thriller with a twist of gender dynamics and a daring visual style. Claire Foy stars as a woman trapped in a mental hospital by her obsessed ex, shot on an iPhone by Steven Soderbergh.
Mar 23, 2018 · 80% Tomatometer 235 Reviews 59% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings Sawyer Valentini relocates from Boston to Pennsylvania to escape from the man who's been stalking her for the last two years. While...
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- Steven Soderbergh
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- Claire Foy
Mar 22, 2018 · 1h 38m. By Manohla Dargis. March 22, 2018. Steven Soderbergh’s new movie, “Unsane,” is an effectively nasty, sometimes funny, sometimes grindingly unpleasant thriller about a woman who is...
- Steven Soderbergh
- Manohla Dargis
- 98 min
Feb 21, 2018 · Feb 21, 2018 1:30pm PT. Film Review: ‘Unsane’. Steven Soderbergh embraces the freeing possibilities of both the iPhone and the B-movie in this pulpy psychothriller, lent some grit by...
- Claire Foy gets trapped in the mental health system, along with her stalker, in an intimate and scary new thriller from Steven Soderbergh.
- Verdict
By William Bibbiani
Posted: Mar 22, 2018 8:38 pm
Steven Soderbergh makes movies about just about every topic, from narcotics to space aliens to stripping to casino heists, but one of the subjects he keeps coming back to is the medical profession, and how absolutely terrifying it can be. Side Effects found the phobias in the prescription drug industry, Contagion watched with morbid fascination as the world fell prey to a deadly virus, and now Unsane wants you to know just how easy it can be to get held captive by the mental health industry. Literally.
Claire Foy stars as Sawyer Valentini, a banker who just moved to a new town to escape her stalker, and who - understandably - is having trouble managing that trauma. She sees a therapist at a nearby clinic, and admits she has sometimes contemplated suicide, and so she’s told to fill out a boilerplate form.
Sawyer thinks she’s just scheduling a second appointment. But what she doesn’t realize, until it’s too late, is that she was tricked into voluntarily committing herself into a deeply corrupt institution. The clinic takes any excuse it can get to commit people, and then holds them until their insurance company stops paying the bills. Sawyer has been kidnapped by a financial system, and her only recourse - or so she’s told - is to let them do it, because trying to stop it would be hard.
Unsane would be seriously nerve-racking if that was all there was to Sawyer’s story. The fear of having your freedom stripped away, by a system designed to treat you like a resource instead of a person, is easy to grasp. Soderbergh plays out Sawyer’s incarceration with a shocking matter-of-factness. Stripping away her dignity and ignoring her pleas is par for the course in this building. It’s the worst thing that ever happened to her. For her captors, it’s just another Wednesday.
Unsane is a creepy little thriller, with a concept that could terrify just about anybody, and a plot that wobbles but ultimately stays on the rails. Claire Foy gives a standout performance and Steven Soderbergh’s intimate visual style sells the idea that we are watching something horribly sinister get revealed.
- William Bibbiani
Mar 25, 2018 · Unsane review – edgy but illogical. Claire Foy outshines the plot in Stephen Soderbergh’s derivative asylum thriller. Wendy Ide. Sun 25 Mar 2018 03.00 EDT. Claire Foy delivers a jangly,...
Mar 23, 2018 · Unsane: Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Joshua Leonard, Claire Foy, Sarah Stiles, Marc Kudisch. A young woman 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?
