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‘Presence’ Review: Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story from the Ghost’s POV. It Is Scary? Not Quite. But the Family Demons Lure You In
Soderbergh shoots the film in long roving takes that are supposed to be what the ghost is seeing, but the paranormal activity remains rather minimal.
The mother, Rebecca ( Lucy Liu), is a harried control freak who runs everything and plays favorites with her kids (she’s the one who decides, in the space of five minutes, to purchase the house, mostly because it’s in the coveted district that will allow the teenage son she dotes on to attend North High School). Tyler (Eddy Maday), the son, is sweet on the surface but a mean-boy lout beneath, and his sister, Chloe (Calliana Liang), has a bad case of the teen-girl blues, though not just because she’s reached that age. Instead, the film locates its heart of darkness squarely in the human world, especially when Chloe gets drawn into a sexualized friendship with Tyler’s buddy, played with deceptive masochistic creepiness by West Mullholland.
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