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Aug 5, 2021 · John (Charlie Shotwell), 13, asks his bemused mother (Jennifer Ehle) midway through Pascual Sisto’s “John and the Hole.”. The question offers a key to this modern-day fable, one that John is ...
Curious slow-burning thriller about a boy who imprisons his family in a bunker - John and the Hole frustrates as much as intrigues
John and the Hole (2021) Review. From debut filmmaker and artist Pascual Sisto and Academy Award-winning writer Nicolás Giacobone (Oscar winner for his script for 2014’s Birdman), the film co-stars top-rank genre actors Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Jennifer Ehle (Saint Maud), and Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story), and features a breakout performance by Charlie Shotwell in an enigmatic ...
Aug 6, 2021 · In Pascual Sisto ’s piercing directorial debut “John and the Hole,” a dark and inventive psychodrama pitched on the vanishing borders of adolescence, 13-year-old John discovers a bunker somewhere in the woods that surround his upscale New England home. That’s the foundation of the film’s title for you in a nutshell, in the most ...
Aug 8, 2021 · Cinematographer Paul Özgür mimics the chill of his tale with gliding camerawork contrasting the open plan airiness of the family home with the frame within a frame claustrophobia of the hole John employs, not to mention a shot that cleverly skewers one of those drone shots that have become so ubiquitous lately. Perhaps everything doesn't ...
Rated: 2/5 Oct 6, 2021 Full Review Eddie Harrison film-authority.com …John in the Hole is absolutely infuriating…an open-ended story that, for one reason or another, the film-makers have ...
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Feb 2, 2021 · Charlie Shotwell gives a compelling performance as the inscrutable John, who suddenly drops his family into a bunker and embarks upon a clumsily forged independence. Elsewhere, a mother tells her daughter his story, a curiously awkward framing device in an otherwise meticulously composed film.