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Jessie Buckley gives a miraculous performance as the anxious young woman at the centre of Charlie Kaufman’s nightmarish chiller
A maze of a movie, in which the walls are closing in and the exit is through a constantly shifting Escher staircase of a storyline: the latest from Charlie Kaufman blends metaphysical sleights of hand with a mounting chill of choking panic.
This is Kaufman’s second screenplay to be based on a novel, but unlike Adaptation’s meta-dissection of the processing of adapting Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief, here he attempts to get into the skin, or at least the sensibility, of Iain Reid’s 2016 book. Continue reading...