In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of a missing persons mystery. Tom teaches tennis during the day and parties at night. When an enigmatic tourist arrives, Tom is unable to shake the feeling he has met her before. Tension and attraction grow, until her husband disappears, and the police suspect Tom.
Acting
Sam Riley's simmering desperation in every backhand
Cinematography
Paradise so gorgeous it feels threatening
Direction
Gerster weaponizes leisure time against you
Director
Jan Ole Gerster
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gerster shot the resort scenes at an actual closed tennis academy in Mallorca, abandoned mid-pandemic.
The film deliberately echoes Clouzot's 'Les Diaboliques' in its treatment of tourist spaces as moral voids where identity dissolves.
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