Your mind's the villain and the escape route—good luck keeping up.
Based on true events, this film with follow the journey of a young woman traversing her trauma, heartbreak and mental illness while pushing the boundaries of reality to overcome it all and find herself.
Direction
Amick's debut controls reality like a dimmer switch.
Acting
Shay carries the whole fractured house on her back.
Editing
Timeline tricks that Gaspar Noé would respect.
Director
Mädchen Amick
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Amick storyboarded every 'reality shift' with two colors: warm for delusion, cold for truth. She refused to tell the cast which was which.
The true events source material involved a woman who convinced herself her deceased mother was alive for eleven months; the film compresses this to suggest simultaneous realities.
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