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‘Bunnylovr’ Review: An Intriguing Plunge Into the Aimless Life of a New York Cam-Girl Ultimately Feels Thin
Writer-director Katarina Zhu teases ideas about loneliness and identity in our increasingly virtual world in an underpowered debut.
But existential dreads and visceral gusts of panic are quietly (and symbolically) everywhere in the film, as Rebecca drifts through her dead-end day job as a personal assistant, and her alternate persona by night as an online sex worker. These anxieties don’t manifest themselves in obvious ways, but through a sense of confinement and loneliness Rebecca seems to be trapped in, realities that Zhu and her cinematographer Daisy Zhou capture in airless, claustrophobic frames. In fact, the filmmaker is at her most insightful when “Bunnylovr” interrogates the psyche of Rebecca as a woman below a certain age, who hasn’t experienced the relative simplicity of the pre-internet world and has to reconcile the strange intersection of her online and offline connections with cautious consideration.
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