

Your couples retreat has mandatory nudity and emotional breakdowns. Still want that free massage?
Calvin and Hanna's relationship comes under threat when their Brazilian holiday resort turns out to be an experimental therapy centre.
Acting
Stourton's perfected pathetic desperation meets Dawson-Hunte's slow-burn resistance
Direction
Villares squeezes maximum dread from mandatory trust exercises
Writing
Every therapy-speak line weaponized against the characters
Director
Leo Villares
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film satirizes the 'spiritual tourism' industry where wealthy Westerners pay to have their egos dismantled by 'authentic' practices, often ignoring local power dynamics.
Villares shot at an actual abandoned retreat in São Paulo state; the crumbling infrastructure wasn't production design. Tom Stourton improvised his naked meltdown in one take.
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