What if the thing haunting you was never there at all — or was it?
A middle-aged suburban woman is haunted by what she believes to be a bird that is stuck in her house, convincing those around her that she has lost her mind.
Acting
Anne Meara's crumbling sanity is devastatingly precise
Direction
Mendelsohn traps you in her psychological claustrophobia
Sound
That bird — real or imagined — will burrow into your ears
Director
Eric Mendelsohn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eric Mendelsohn made this as his thesis film at Columbia; it won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and launched his career.
The 4:3 Academy ratio and shallow focus deliberately evoke 1950s women's pictures, weaponizing domestic nostalgia against itself.
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