Taking place in real time, elementary school teacher Emily organizes a mixer of like-minded women, but an altercation between a woman from Emily’s past and the group leads to a volatile chain of events.
Direction
Single-take real-time structure that refuses to let you breathe.
Acting
Stefanie Estes crafts Emily's chilling chipperness.
Writing
Dialogue so banal it becomes terrifying.
Director
Beth de Araújo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed in two takes over eight hours; the used take was the second because the first had a camera malfunction 70 minutes in.
Released shortly after the 2021 Capitol riot, the film explicitly connects suburban white womanhood to organized hate movements often coded as 'fringe.'
US
