Exclusive Clip: Swallow
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 5:00PM 
Out this Friday is Swallow, a psychological thriller about a woman unraveling ie The Film Experience’s favorite genre. Haley Bennett stars as Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife leading a seemingly perfect life who cracks under pressure to meet her controlling in-laws and husband’s rigid expectations. Austin Stowell co-stars as the husband. Bennett won best actress in the US Narrative competition at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival and this could mark a major breakout for her after roles in The Girl on the Train (2016) and The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019).
We are debuting an exclusive clip from Swallow and to set it up here’s writer and director Carlo Mirabella-Davis:
One of the core visual themes of SWALLOW is the image of a cracking façade; a veneer of normalcy with a fracture slowly forming on its surface. We used this image as a central motif in the camera direction and the production design. Thematically, this façade represents the world of white, patriarchal power and “success” that we are all taught to idealize as the apex of the American Dream. SWALLOW is a quasi-satirical critique of the top one percent and its malignant, patriarchal norms that are propagated throughout our government, corporations, society, and media. Hunter, our main character, has married into this masculine world of power and success, but because of her gender and working-class background, there’s something about this gilded cage that doesn’t sit right with her. She represses this disquiet under a plaintive smile until it threatens to undo her.
Swallow will be in select theaters and on demand this Friday March 6th.
Reader Comments (4)
Haley Bennett is an actress I thought showed a lot of promise in Gregg Araki’s Kaboom. Hopefully this is her breakthrough moment. Also, it’s never not going to be eerie how much she looks like the missing link between Cate Blanchett and Jennifer Lawrence.
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