A dominatrix and her client struggle for power in Sanctuary, starring Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott.
is less about sex than abstinence. “Do you want to come?” Rebecca the dominatrix asks her desperate client. After he manages a strangled: “Can I …please?” She denies him permission.
And the thing is, he only has himself to blame since he’s written the script for their encounter, and she’s following it down to the last sweaty detail.is trying very hard to be both thrilling and erotic – despite the repeated postponement of the act itself – but all that comes through is the effort. Just watching is exhausting.
Rebecca and her client, Christopher Abbott’s Hal, rain a torrent of verbal abuse down on one another before they’re done, and he demolishes quite a lot of furniture. Even so, Wigon and writer Micah Bloomberg, remain curiously intent on having us like these two – at least enough for us to consent to spending an hour-and-a-half shut up in their company without so much as a room service waiter to brighten the atmosphere.
But this time he has a surprise for her. He’s about to take over the family company and the time has come, he has decided, to be done with his desire to play the submissive. Rebecca is being pensioned off with an Audemars Piguet watch that he presents to her in the naive belief that she’s going to be grateful.At this point, the real histrionics begin. There should be some suspense in them.
Petulance is passed off as passion and Rebecca’s blackmail attempts and accelerating demands grow more contrived with every moment. Clearly, something’s got to give but when the resolution to this impasse finally arrives, it turns out to be even more ludicrous than what’s gone before.
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