A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.
Direction
Lanthimos's deadpan horror in miniature—every shot calculated
Acting
Patakia's mimicry so precise you'll doubt your own memory
Sound
Cello as identity weapon—music that colonizes
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Commissioned by Miu Miu's Women's Tales series, making this high-fashion sponsored content that accidentally became pure nightmare fuel.
The mimic never speaks—the family fills in her silence with projection, revealing how little they actually saw of the original cellist.
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