As the title might imply Every Breath You Take is a psychological thriller about a stalker. It’s clearly been made in the same aesthetic vein as The Woman in the Window or Gone Girl, all elegant glass houses in affluent, but isolated regions of North America. Doing its job with suitable aplomb but never really pushing the boat out in terms of story and character.
Casey Affleck is very much in Manchester by the Sea, mode as Philip Fanning, a bereaved father and psychiatrist whose already, fragile life rattled by the suicide of his patient. The appearance of Sam Claflin as the patient’s brother adds a twist in the knife as this walking reminder of Philip’s failure begins to ingratiate himself into the family. Seducing his teenage daughter (Lily Krug) and befriending then seducing his wife Grace (Michelle Monaghan). Things escalate at a slow burn and eventually...
Casey Affleck is very much in Manchester by the Sea, mode as Philip Fanning, a bereaved father and psychiatrist whose already, fragile life rattled by the suicide of his patient. The appearance of Sam Claflin as the patient’s brother adds a twist in the knife as this walking reminder of Philip’s failure begins to ingratiate himself into the family. Seducing his teenage daughter (Lily Krug) and befriending then seducing his wife Grace (Michelle Monaghan). Things escalate at a slow burn and eventually...
- 7/23/2021
- by Liam Macleod
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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