A deeply unsettling film set in Jersey City, featuring a woman named Frankie who grapples with neurodegenerative disorders while living in impoverished conditions. With a haunting electronic score, the film channels a sense of unease reminiscent of early works by Christopher Nolan and directors like Lynch and Cronenberg. Frankie faces the looming threat of assisted living due to her condition, alongside unresolved trauma from her husband's suicide. Her interactions, particularly with a young woman in a therapy group, introduce elements of mystery and potential danger.
This ineffably creepy, often unbearably tense and disquieting film has a little of early Christopher Nolan (the Nolan of Following and Memento), with hints of Lynch and Cronenberg in its hallucinatory episodes.
Frankie, a woman living on the edge of poverty, suffering from neurogenerative disorders ataxia and dyschronometria, struggles to manage her disorientation through tapes and window-gazing.
The scene in which a harassed doctor puts this to her is itself a masterly set piece of grimness.
At a therapy group for those who have lost loved ones to suicide, Frankie meets a mysteriously intense young woman, who proposes a strange proposition regarding abuse.
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