![]() ![]() Other celebrities expected on the Croisette include Julia Roberts, who will feature in a Cannes film for the first time. The yellow poster, picturing French actor Michel Piccoli climbing the stairs of Capri’s Villa Malaparte in Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mepris (Contempt) was lifted on two facades of the Palais des Festivals, where the films in the main competition will be shown from May 11-22.Īmerican actress Kristen Stewart has already been dubbed ‘Queen of Cannes’ by organizers as she stars in the opening film as well as Olivier Assayas’s in-competition film ‘Personal Shopper’, which will be screened on Tuesday, May 17. The festival, whose main competition will be presided by Australian director George Miller, will kick of on Wednesday with Woody Allen’s Café Society. CANNES, France, May 9 (Reuters) - The official poster for the 69th Cannes film festival was hung up on the Palais des Festivals on Monday, setting the early tone for a star-studded event as the Riviera city is getting ready to welcome directors, movie stars and scores of fans. (Yes, it all makes sense in context, I suppose, but still. She offers it her all, to be sure, but is incapable of overcoming the inanities of a screenplay so beneath her that there are times when it seems to be going out of her way to embarrass her-in one especially mortifying moment, we get to see one of the best actresses around kneeling in front of a toilet naked while chugging baby shampoo in order to help her induce vomiting. She has been in a lot of movies, some very good, some very bad but few which have given her as little to work with as this one does. Which brings us back to the inexplicable presence of Naomi Watts, an actress I have admired ever since I saw her for the first time as the spunky sidekick in the long-forgotten “ Tank Girl” and whose work in “ Mulholland Drive” is one of the best screen performances that I've ever seen. Believe me, in this case, that gets really tiresome after a while. To make matters worse, director Farren Blackburn (a veteran of such TV shows as “Doctor Who” and “ Daredevil”) directs everything at such a poky tempo that it feels twice as long as its 90-minute running time and proves incapable of delivering a scare that doesn’t rely solely on people suddenly popping up out of nowhere. Download this stock image: Shut In (2016) Poster - PMB2CH from Alamys library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors. Caruso con Rainey Qualley, Jake Horowitz, Luciana VanDette, Vincent Gallo. (Suffice it to say, it almost makes the big twist in “ The Boy” seem staid and logical by comparison.) Second, the story leading up to that less-than-spectacular reveal is a heavy-handed drag that spends more time blatantly ripping off elements from Stanley Kubrick’s take on “ The Shining” than in trying to create a compelling story of its own. Shut In (Encerrada) es una película dirigida por D.J. First, the big twist is so ridiculous that viewers will more likely find themselves laughing at its sheer silliness than reeling from its dramatic rug-pulling. There are two key problems with that approach. Watching the story unfold, you get the sense that first-time screenwriter Christina Hodson came up with the big final twist first and then decided to work backwards to construct a narrative that would fit it. The concept of “Shut In” is promising, I suppose, but the execution here is pretty much a total botch from start to finish. ![]() Good thing that a raging ice storm is bearing down on where she lives because absolutely nothing strange or bizarre would possibly happen when she was cut off from the outside world, right? While her psychiatrist friend suggests that she is suffering from the effects of parasomnia as the result of what has happened with both Stephen and Tom, she is convinced that something else entirely is going on. A search for Tom goes on in earnest, and Mary is crushed with guilt over what has happened until strange things begin happening around the house. Its a drama and horror movie with a less than average IMDb audience rating of. ![]() Before she can do much of anything, he just as quickly takes off into the frigid evening again and cannot be found. Shut In is available to stream on TVision and Tubi. One night, one of her more troubled patients, a young deaf boy named Tom ( Jacob Tremblay from “ Room”) turns up on her doorstep. Her Skype sessions with another shrink ( Oliver Platt) are not helping. Six months later, Mary is caring for Stephen at home by herself, and, while she loves him, the pressure is clearly getting to her. As the story opens, a horrible car crash has killed her husband and left 18-year-old stepson Stephen ( Charlie Heaton of “Stranger Things”) paralyzed from the neck down and unable to communicate. Watts plays Mary Portman, a child psychologist who lives and works in a remote corner of rural Maine. A heart-pounding thriller starring Naomi Watts as a widowed child psychologist who lives an isolated existence in rural New England. ![]()
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