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Sep 22, 2020 · The Swerve. It's hard to pinpoint the moment when Holly ( Azura Skye) goes off the rails. What we witness over the course of "The Swerve," a powerful debut from writer/director Dean Kapsalis, is the total breakdown of a human being, an accelerated dissolution of defenses, of sanity, until there is no turning back.
Swerve is a 2011 Australian thriller film written and directed by Craig Lahiff and starring Emma Booth, Jason Clarke and David Lyons. Lyons plays an honest man who, after coming upon a car accident, retrieves a suitcase full of cash from a wrecked car.
Bound together by Azura Skye's riveting work in the central role, The Swerve paints a harrowing portrait of a life unmoored.
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- Azura Skye
- Dean Kapsalis
- Drama
Oct 6, 2020 · synopsis: “Holly seems to have it all: two kids, a nice house, a good job as a teacher, and a husband with his career on the way up. But there are troubling signs that all is not right in her world.
Sep 21, 2020 · A disturbingly bleak portrait of a woman descending into madness, ‘The Swerve’ charts a week in the life of Holly, a wife, a mother, a sister and an English teacher, as she attempts to navigate through life in as graceful a manner as possible.
Plot. The Swerve follows Holly (Azura Skye), a high school teacher in a small town. Holly is married to Rob (Bryce Pinkham), who is focused on a promotion at the local supermarket, and is the mother to two teenage sons who frequently show impatience and irritation towards her.
Sep 22, 2020 · Suburban suffocation, impending doom, a tragedy waiting to happen, The Swerve is a compelling depiction of existential angst, melancholy, and mental illness, with director Kapsalis opting for subtlety over big-scene meltdown histrionics and much to his credit.
