Synopsis
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.
2019 Directed by Carlo Mirabella-Davis
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.
Joe Wright Haley Bennett Eric Tavitian Sam Bisbee David Boies 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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that jennifer lawrence clone looking mothafacka straight up has binged all those "my strange addiction: i can't stop eating rocks" videos
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.
Streamed
There isn't a single moment of this movie when I wasn't deeply uncomfortable. Highly recommended.
women be eating!!!!
eating away at their own bodily autonomy by internalizing the roles being projected on them
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…
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.
I can overlook her casually eating a battery but I draw the line at that fucking wig
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…
Muy interesante. Aunque las tramas con violadores arrepentidos me conflictuan un poco.
I don’t think I realized this would be a slow burn. I think it’s a good film but I don’t necessarily love it. I love the point of it but I do feel like it was lacking something I can’t put my finger on.
First of all, ouch.
Swallow is a really interesting film, about a very real condition. If we look at it from a first-level narrative, it hits all the right spots regarding the origins of such an illness, as well as the behaviours/stances towards it. Obsessive-compulsive disorders and complusion-including ailments like pica, are often tightly connected to a longing for control, as well as a need for self-worth. The depiction of these needs is accurately put on display in the movie, and in some moments, some unexpected turns where taken (it actually reminded of an addiction).
On a deeper level, the effort to reclaim self-determination from the binds of a patriarchic state is a daily struggle in the lives of women…
i liked it, but i wouldn't call it horror or even a thriller... just kind of felt like a sad/suspenseful/surreal drama to me 🤷♂️ Not scary at all, but i liked the story.
Haley Bennet imbues this movie with innocence as a want-to-do-the-right-thing newlywed who is struggling to find (or truly acknowledge) herself amongst her new upper-class family. It's her face that takes you on this journey as you watch her blush, smile through sadness and find happiness in something harmful. Her performance is spectacular.
By the end, the facade of innocence is smeared with dirt and the truth comes clear. In its final moments, does she truly find and accept herself or is she charting a familiar course? Your call. Either way, a squirmy delight this movie was.
The The on the soundtrack is always gonna get some extra praise from me...
In all seriousness though, this is a pretty clever little horror film.
We follow Haley Bennett's Hunter - an obedient housewife, stuck in her beautiful home, slowly watching her life pass by as she cleans, puts up the drapes, thinks about making flowerbeds and generally stares out the window.. until she picks up a small marble.
Whilst on the surface the central conceit of the movie is that this woman is swallowing things, underneath all that is an observation of a how she has married into an imposing family of successful people who look down on her, expect her to follow a certain path of "choices"…
“Are you happy or are you pretending to be happy?”
Swallow is a movie that will make your stomach hurts or make your legs feel limp. I honestly enjoyed this 1-hour long movie. So, I will write down my perspective on this one.
Cons: This movie trying to delivered about mental health that is usually considered taboo. It pictured how hunter's husband and his family reacted to her condition. But Honestly, what are they trying to say? are they feel pity for her? or ashamed? It kinda felt unclear to me. It feels rushed in the first fifteen minutes. I think I will enjoy it a lot more if they explore Hunter's state of mind before this pica disorder happened,…
The perfect little housewife, with her every day perfect life stumbles upon a deep dark desire to ingest harmful forbidden items in her home.
With this sudden need to taste the forbidden she will lose herself deep in her obsession.
TLC’s My Strange Addiction gets the arthouse treatment in this provocative domestic horror film that calls to mind mid-career David Cronenberg. Blending psychological turmoil with bodily functions in a cold, detached world of a corporate housewife completely removed from all agency,
Starring Haley Bennet, who has pretty much been encompassed in a steely glacial house film with glazed glass and always towered by the pristine hollow IKEA Art Deco interiors. She’s a newly wedded woman to a narcissistic CEO to a huge family business, free to bring friends around to party whilst leaving her alone completely isolated around the world. Her lack of independence and control goes overboard when her news of her pregnancy reaches her in-laws who already declare…
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