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Presence Is the Best Thing Steven Soderbergh’s Done in Ages
It’s an art film that also works as a spellbinding horror film.
A haunted house movie from the point of view of the ghost, Steven Soderbergh’s Presence combines the director’s ongoing formalist ambitions with stripped-down, boilerplate genre theatrics. A family buys a new house (from a real estate agent played by Julia Fox, who gets one memorable scene), and soon, one member is sensing strange occurrences while the others remain oblivious. At the film’s Sundance post-premiere Q&A, the actors noted the unique feeling of having Soderbergh intimately involved in each scene with them, like another performer, hovering over them, breathing down their necks, and then sprinting upstairs “in his martial arts slippers,” with the huge camera still in his hands to capture the ghost’s speedy shifts in perspective.
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