She Dies Tomorrow (Siemetz, 2020): ICA Cinema, 4.30pm
This screening will feature an introduction from writer and critic Lillian Crawford and is part of the Beyond Interpretation season curated by Chris Cassingham in partnership with the National Film and Television School and the ICA. Full details here.
Observer review:
Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil) is
convinced that she will die tomorrow. Gripped by this morbid knowledge
she floats around her sparsely decorated Los Angeles home in a dreamlike
stupor, drinking white wine, stroking the walls and browsing ceramic
urns on the internet. She plays Mozart’s Requiem on repeat. Her
scientist friend Jane (Jane Adams) attempts to reassure her but Amy’s
paranoia is catching and it’s not long before Jane too is certain of her
own impending death. Jane’s
pyjama-clad attendance at a house party has a knock-on effect,
propelling each guest to make his or her final arrangements.
Hallucinatory neon reds, blues, greens and purples wash over terrified
faces. This is an audacious cinematic rendering of anxiety as contagion from US writer-director Amy Seimetz. Alternately hilarious and spine-tingling, it recalls David Lynch’s Twin Peaks in its serious, penetrating sense of doom.
Simran Hans
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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