A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.
Acting
Cranston's face carries 90 minutes of voiceover.
Direction
Swicord makes voyeurism feel like self-surgery.
Cinematography
Attic as liminal space, beautifully suffocating.
Director
Robin Swicord
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from a 2008 New Yorker short story by E.L. Doctorow, itself riffing on an 1835 Nathaniel Hawthorne tale. The attic hideout is American literary tradition.
Cranston filmed most scenes alone with a small crew, often improvising reactions to pre-recorded Garner footage. The isolation is real.
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