Best use of phones I’ve seen since Decision to Leave. There’s something ghostlike about Maureen long before anything supernatural even shows up, she drifts through these pristine places like she doesn’t belong, like the life she’s living is someone else’s, someone else’s memories. Kristen Stewart is genuinely excellent here, she place Maureen with this detachment that feels like it’s about to snap but it never does. Caught between this grief that won’t resolve and a world that won’t stop to let it. Asayas leans into that disconnection, he lets the film slide between haunted house horror and digital paranoia without ever settling and that insability becomes the whole idea. The phone stuff shouldn’t work, the genre flipping shouldn’t work, I should be wanting an answer right now, but it all clicks into this weird lingering portrait of loss. Nothing feels definitive because loss isn’t.
Best use of phones I’ve seen since Decision to Leave. There’s something ghostlike about Maureen long before anything supernatural even shows up, she drifts through these pristine places like she doesn’t belong, like the life she’s living is someone else’s, someone else’s memories. Kristen Stewart is genuinely excellent here, she place Maureen with this detachment that feels like it’s about to snap but it never does. Caught between this grief that won’t resolve and a world that won’t stop to let it. Asayas leans into that disconnection, he lets the film slide between haunted house horror and digital paranoia without ever settling and that insability becomes the whole idea. The phone stuff shouldn’t work, the genre flipping shouldn’t work, I should be wanting an answer right now, but it all clicks into this weird lingering portrait of loss. Nothing feels definitive because loss isn’t.
