The heir to a hotel chain is deceived by a very particular employee, it is the beginning of a theater of the absurd that mixes truth and theater
PFor quite a while it is not clear whether it is a play or whether Margaret Qualley you wear a wig. The beginning of sanctuary (spoiled in Italian with He plays the game. She makes the ruleswhatever ‘) is in fact a professional assessment interview in a hotel room, and at the same time a game about who the actress (daughter of Andie MacDowell) looks like never before blonde. But when you understand that Rebecca is the duplicate of Clare Ferragni wearing a Sanremo helmet, everything becomes more or less clear. But then this blond is a Hitchcockian blondhides black or brown, a second identity, a plan
The unveiling takes place for progressive infractions of a shaky premise. Self Hal Porterfield (Christopher Abbott) is the heiress of a luxury hotel magnate, why on earth is some chick interviewing him for the CEO position? Is it a clause from the master father? In reality it is a script in which the fake consultant is a professional dominatrix, and he is the client who, for arousal purposes, should come out as a loser but satisfied
There is, however, that Rebecca, at a certain point maliciously derails, dialogue doesn’t work, he says. Hal instead reminds her that the agreements were not to change anything, you can’t afford to break the Sanctuary
Rebecca doesn’t just give a damnin a waltz of continuous lunges into the psyche of this man with obvious self-esteem issuesforces him to scrub the bathroom floor thoroughly with a toothbrush. Sitting with spread legs commands and humiliates, finally satisfies. The reward, of this skit that turns out to be calculated, also corresponds to the end of the employment relationship: Hal dismisses Rebecca with the tact of a premium watch, of those that are given to retirees. Now that he’s going to be CEO, he can’t risk these hobbies going public. Thus begins another sanctuary
Margaret Qualley. (The Wonder Pictures)
One in which the dark Rebecca is now the villain sister of Vivian’s pretty woman, one who wants to continue the professional fairy tale, other than patacca with dedication. With doubt whether it’s a continuation of Hal’s pdf scriptthe film (shot as a young man Zachary Wigon) structures a class struggle between a girl who grew up poor and a nepo baby, between character and soft privilege, between a possible psychopath and a no less immoral masochist. A psychological battle of wills, defense and attack, which Rebecca seems to lead with more resources
Going as far as extortion. What on earth do you want to become, Hal, she tells him, a CEO who matches your fantasy of submission? But don’t you know I recorded our meetings. Looking for the cam behind mirrors and instead of light bulbs is a fruitless undertaking, easier to pay the silence. Only that the theater of the absurd of sanctuarythe more it seems to close issues, the more it opens
And whoever was dominant becomes, even if for a short time, dominated. Subjected to interrogation, from which perorations and changes of tone, between invocations to understanding, to identificationlook, i was joking
Christopher Abbott. (The Wonder Pictures)
At the third change of perspectivethe question whether the hotel room is a mental space, a dream, a The Others made alive, it’s not so far-fetched. Neither is feeling bored while trying to speculate on an outcome. Thank God, Micah Bloomberg, screenwriter known mostly as a sound engineer, is very skilled in managing balances, in misleading and confusing. In expanding time and shifting sympathy for one of the two, and vice versa
And indeed sanctuary flows peacefully, a dynamic and average game disturbing, all supported by Margaret and Christopher, especially by her, perhaps in her first full role. A dark lady with horror streaks at Amazing Amy’s Gone girl. Often shot in close up to look for signs of failures and strategies, o perhaps only to celebrate a glorious fixity as a master of manipulation.
Rebecca – although not very original – is an interesting character, the fact that it will remain a good rehearsal and not a memorable part it is due to two aspects. The nature of the project, born as a chamber drama following the restrictions due to Covid. And, it would seem from the ending, to the resulting experimental intention of the film, which after a long time edging (the technique of controlled orgasm in view of a sensational climax; after all, we are in BDSM territory) closes by throwing to the wind all the antisocial details scattered throughout the plot. After all, if we start with that of the blonde wig which alone makes up three quarters of the history of cinema
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