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2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – John and the Hole
Directed by Pascual Sisto.
SYNOPSIS:
While exploring the neighbouring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker – a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive.
Pascual Sisto’s directorial debut
John and the Hole offers up a twisted, polarity-reversed take on Home Alone minced through the chilly, darkly comic nihilism of Yorgos Lanthimos, testing not only the nature of parent-child relationship dynamics but also the audience’s capacity for mannered, often unexplained strangeness.
Posted on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 by Hoai-Tran Bui
Every now and again, some internet smart aleck will cut a trailer for a beloved comedy classic that imagines that film as a horror movie.
Mrs. Doubtfire, Shrek, Ross from
Friends, what have you they all turn into the psychopathic killers given the right editing choices and a creepy enough musical score. But the most popular victim (or villain, depending on your reading) is Kevin McCallister from
Home Alone, whose cartoonish antics strike fear in the hearts of people who think about their real ramifications.
Of course, the chilling psychological thriller
John and the Holeis more than just a cobbled-together internet video. The feature directorial debut of Pascual Sisto, penned by Oscar-winning writer Nicolás Giacobone (
Charlie Shotwell in John and the Hole
Charlie Shotwell plays an intense teen who traps his family in a forest bunker in Pascual Sisto s disturbing first feature, also starring Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Ehle and Taissa Farmiga.
The minefield of early adolescence is a treacherous phase in Spanish visual artist Pascual Sisto s
John and the Hole, in which Charlie Shotwell gives a rivetingly affectless performance as an apathetic 13-year-old who holds his parents and sister captive in an underground bunker. The director has jokingly referred to his psychological coming-of-age thriller as a Michael Haneke version of
Home Alone, which isn t far from the truth. But it more specifically recalls the 2014 nail-biter by the Austrian auteur s compatriots Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala,
John and the Hole Marks a Tense, Vacant Feature Debut
Pascual Sisto shows directorial prowess with his first feature, but what is it all about?
Sundance Institute
about.
John and the Hole. John (
Charlie Shotwell) is a spindly boy in late-middle/early-high school with a staple white suburban swoosh of straight dirty blonde hair that hangs dramatically over his right eye. He doesn’t talk much from what we see, except to ask his parents the occasional investigative life question, as children do, or mutter some fuck yous with all the muted excitement of a teenager beating his friend in a game online. But he’s not afraid to talk either. He’s quiet and comfortable with his family and they’re quiet and comfortable with him. That is until they meet the titular hole.