A hotel heir (Christopher Abbott) has some trouble with his dominatrix (Margaret Qualley) in Zachary Wigon's sophomore feature premiering in Toronto.
It grows harder each year to buy into fictions about rich people who, with all their physical and practical needs met, must invent new ways of being unhappy and stranger pleasures to pursue. But the conflict we’re about to see would be very hard to envision without the unseen presence of vast sums of money, and it’s more than worth enduring the film’s Richie Rich stuff to get to it.
But after accepting this news and bidding him farewell, Rebecca pauses at the elevators. This businesslike kiss-off isn’t right. She goes back to Hal’s room to argue that, without her services, he would never have achieved the self-confidence necessary to run this company. Like a member of the proletariat with a rare bit of leverage, she announces, “I want what I’m worth, relative to what you have.” A luxury retirement watch isn’t going to do.
Occasionally the film breaks to catch his breath, with punctuating interludes of abstract color washes. Early on, letting these remind one offeels like the wrong interpretation. But as the picture progresses, revealing some deep and tangled dependencies between the two, a distant kinship to that movie seems less impossible.
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